DRAFT THESIS MEES & BOB 1 © Mees Hehenkamp & Bob Rehorst 26-06-2019 Authors: Hehenkamp, M.H.R. (5548381)
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[email protected] Institution: Utrecht University Dep. of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology Keywords: Beirut, Lebanon, Collective Memory, Politics of Memory, Post-War Reconstruction, Urbanization, Place-making, Right to the City, Modernization, Citizenship, Urban Identity. Word Count: 21,781 words 2 Beirut… What kills you is no longer the shattering shells of the rifle’s rapid rattle. No longer is it the searing sounds of shells shattering on the streets. Nothing happens now. Yet wearied we keep awake, tormented by thought. The night is silent. What are we doing here? What do we search for in this city of scars? We attempt to walk the walk, talk the talk, Still we hear the echo of a rapid rattle of construction. Fumes, a black veil which covers the urban, Fills every crack of this dense city. Melancholic, nostalgic, it wears us down. Life has returned, Yet, nothing happens now. - Bob Rehorst 3 Author: Bob Rehorst Author: Mees Hehenkamp 4 5 Table of Contents Acknowledgements: ................................................................................................................................ 7 List of Acronyms: .................................................................................................................................... 8 Introduction: ...........................................................................................................................................