Reconstructing Neighborhoods of War: The Case of Beirut Prof. Dr. Birgit Schäbler (University of Erfurt) Abstract: The talk looks at the sociological concept of neighborhood and how neighborhoods fare in war and reconstruction. It concentrates on Beirut, a city which experienced urbicide and domicide in 15 years of (internationalized) civil war, lasting from 1975 to […]

The globalized, interconnected, and rapidly changing nature of contemporary societies is expressed in the ways in which spaces are produced, experienced, understood, and transformed. Large-scale societal shifts—such as globalization, digitalization, migration, and climate change—have led to the refiguration of spaces into heterogeneous, overlapping, and often conflicting spatial orders. Over the past seven years, the CRC […]