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Book review: the politics of sectarianism in post-war Lebanon

A rigorous, timely examination of the reproduction of sectarianism and the forms of resistance to sectarian disciplinary power and how, in turn, the sectarian system responds to them.

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Protest against sectarianism in Lebanon, 2013. Demotix/Dalal Mawad. All rights reserved.  

In this new book, Salloukh and his colleagues develop a timely contribution to the understanding of sectarianism and its durability in post-war Lebanon.

Salloukh et al. argue that sectarianism is “a modern constitutive Foucauldian socioeconomic and political power” that uses institutional, clientelist, economic, and discursive practices to produce and reproduce sectarian subjects and modes of political subjectification (p. 3).