Search search. Browse By Year. By type. By Type. By Geography. By Author. By Theme. Social Value Of Land. Urban Recovery. Urban Citizenship. Critical Mapping. Planning Actors and Scales. Spatial Practices. Urban Informality. By Keyword. Lebanon, Beirut, Governance. This project is funded by the IDRC. Share Print. But, this time, recovery is not championed by a billionaire prime-minister like Rafic Hariri able to attract transnational capital flows to the country; nor is it led by a powerful political-sectarian party like Hizballah dominating its stronghold and imposing its authority.
As with each reconstruction, international aid did mobilize to support Lebanon, but this time, donors are not as keen as they used to be to provide a lifeline to the state, amidst an unaccommodating geopolitical context.
As such, aid is scarce, conditional and restrictive, rather than providing rents that can be captured. This track uses a mixed-methods approach, relying on primary data from key informant interviews, and on participant observation. Additionally, it relies on secondary data from reviews of grey literature related to aid architectures in areas of limited statehood.
This analysis builds on the political economy of relief literature and sheds light on the relationship that exists between types of actors, choice of goods provided, and selection of beneficiaries. Methods here are also mixed and rely on qualitative and quantitative tools including a survey questionnaire, in-depth interviews, participant observation, mapping and desk research.
We thus expect to publish first results by the second commemoration of the Beirut Blast, on August 4, , and more complete findings starting Fall throughout Spring
