Staging khiam: documentary, theater, and archive in postwar lebanon
TL;DR: The notorious detention center at Khiam in South Lebanon was a long-denied political prison run by Israeli proxies, L’Armee du Liban-Sud as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The notorious detention center at Khiam in South Lebanon was a long-denied political prison run by Israeli proxies, L’Armee du Liban-Sud. By investigating the curious life-cycles of this site from colonial barracks to detention center, then museum, ruins after its destruction during the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict of 2006, and back into some form of memorial site once more, this article assesses the potency of borders, creativity and the manifestation of archival figures in documentary and staged projects which center on Khiam. How do these projects face the challenge of representing something to which so few bore witness? In so doing, the memory politics of South Lebanon as distinct from the cosmopolitan cultures of Beirut are discussed across a diverse range of texts.
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TL;DR: The authors propose that contemporary militarization can be understood as part of the continued legacy and consequence of colonial practices and (neo-)imperial logics, and reveal how, in spaces characterized by...
Abstract: We propose that contemporary militarization be understood as part of the continued legacy and consequence of colonial practices and (neo-)imperial logics. We reveal how, in spaces characterized by ...
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...Claire Launchbury (2014) has described the historical trajectory of Khiam, the now non-existent clandestine prison as having gone “from barracks, to prison, to museum, to ruin” (p. 516)....
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...In 2000, Hizbullah took over the site, turning it into a museum where former detainees volunteered as tour guides (Deeb, 2008: 393; Launchbury, 2014: 516)....
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TL;DR: The authors investigates the status and effect of images in the post-conflict public space of South Lebanon which is the stage of political and social configurations involving specific means of image production on the territory.
Abstract: This article investigates the status and effect of images in the post-conflict public space of South Lebanon which is the stage of political and social configurations involving specific means of image production on the territory. How, why and for whom are images produced in a post-conflict area that has been perceived as “invisible” for thirty years? Are the images produced a way to go beyond this conflict or do they perpetuate it? All of these artefacts are resources for the appropriation of the southern Lebanese space; but discrepancies are created on the ground by their limited effects and reception. The aim of this paper is to point out the dissonances between the presumed power of these images and their effectiveness on the ground by focusing on the staging of the former prison of Khiam since 2000 and its reflection of all these dynamics. We will show that images in Khiam and in the South are in a liminal state: they are produced for Others who are not directly addressed, they are contested but not on-site and the effect of this contestation is null. They are finally ghosts in the place, ghosts in the territory.
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