Doctoral Dissertation Research: Reconstruction and Its Discontents: Post-Conflict Urban Renewal in Beirut

本文研究了黎巴嫩内战后贝鲁特当地的种族和宗教派系如何影响城市重建计划。全球和国内的精英们一直支持建立一个新的现代商业城市的计划，但现在他们不得不与在战争期间夺取社区权力基础的以前从属的少数民族进行谈判。因此，城市重建是由中央集权和分权、精英和下属群体、全球经济和地方经济之间的斗争决定的。贝鲁特的进程预计将反映世界各地多民族城市的类似冲突。档案报纸的数据将补充已经完成的定性实地工作和采访。

This dissertation investigates how Beirut's locally based ethnic and religious factionalism affects the plans for urban reconstruction in the wake of the Lebanese civil war. Global and national elites have championed plans for a new modern commercial city but now have to negotiate with previously subordinated ethnic groups who seized neighborhood power bases during the war. Urban reconstruction is therefore shaped by struggles between centralization and decentralization, elite and subordinate groups, global and local economics. The process in Beirut is expected to reflect similar conflicts in multi-ethnic cities around the world. Archival newspaper data will supplement qualitative field work and interviews that have already been completed.