Adhocratic Humanitarianisms and Ageing Emergencies in Lebanon: from the July 2006 War in Beirut’s Southern Suburbs to the Syrian Refugee Influx in Akkar’s Villages.

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This thesis explores the ways in which humanitarianism transforms social space through case studies of Beirut’s southern suburbs (Dahiye) in response to 2006 July war and the Syrian refugee influx in Akkar (North Lebanon) from war in Syria during 2011-2014.
\nThrough the investigation of humanitarian practices, it identifies the (un)declared states of emergency in which the short-term displacement of the Lebanese population cyclically exists alongside ageing refugeehood of Iraqis, Palestinians, and Sudanese in Lebanon.
\nIt also explores how humanitarian practice becomes articulated with forms of welfare and development in the form of long-term humanitarianism. Official states of emergency in Lebanon cyclically stimulate the flow of greater amounts of social and economic resources to local citizens through the increasing internationalisation of local welfare.
\nThis thesis investigates how transnational humanitarian interventions have produced different macro-political outc

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