17 ‘Dangerous’ fieldwork
Jonathan Luke Austin
Introduction
A few years ago, I was in a taxi heading to a place called Dahiyeh. Dahiyeh is somewhere you might better know from television as the Hezbollah ‘stronghold’ of Southern Beirut. But, in reality, Dahiyeh is just an impoverished urban sprawl. It’s not a pretty place. It’s a concrete place, more than anything else. I was heading there, passing anti-blast barriers and security checkpoints, in order to reach an organization called UMAM Documentation and Research. UMAM is an activist non-governmental organization (NGO) that explores issues of collective memory and political violence in Lebanon from the time of its civil war till today. On arriving, I began a ...
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