Burj El Barajneh Camp: Socialities in Displacement -
Work by Dr Samar Maqusi
Animations by Bernard Abou Assi
What does Beirut Sound Like?
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"The Sensorial Politics of Beirut’s Waste Infrastructures" by Elizabeth Saleh
Academic Summary: Elizabeth Saleh works at the intersection of political and economic anthropology. She is currently working on a monograph with the working title Junk Territory: Growing up at a Beirut Scrapyard. The book tells the story of underage Syrian waste pickers growing up at a small scrapyard located in a run-down building in Beirut. Drawing on more than six years of fieldwork, the book documents how different schemas of worth and value intersect with profit-making infrastructures, currencies of intergenerational obligation, and the interplay between host and migrant communities. It shows how Beirut is a city pieced together through a medley of different enterprises and projects facilitating an equally hodgepodge provision of public services.