Exploring Ethnocracy and the Possibilities of Coexistence in Beirut

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Konstantin Kastrissianakis

Abstract

In response to James Anderson’s article “Ethnocracy: Exploring and extending the concept”, this article revisits some of the extensive discussions of Lebanon’s political sectarianism through the prism of ethnocracy to the extent that it contributes to an analysis of the socio-political structure of the Lebanese capital, and vice-versa. After a discussion of the relevance of the notion of ethnocracy to the Lebanese context and Anderson’s “extensions” of the concept, the paper will briefly introduce recent developments in the country that point to growing and organised contestation of the political system and what it reveals about the Lebanese model’s “resilience”. 

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Author Biography

Konstantin Kastrissianakis, Durham University

Post-doctoral Research Associate

Department of Geography