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Political Familism in Lebanon

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Patrimonialism has been used to explain the “backwardness” of Middle Eastern states, their “lacks.” Patrimonialism, however, may undermine its own insights by creating false binaries and false histories. The author suggests family/families as a point of departure and political familism as a conceptual step toward reframing analysis of state/citizen relationships in Lebanon. Political familism refers to the deployment of family institutions, ideologies, idioms (idiomatic kinship), practices, and relationships by citizens to activate their demands in relation to the state and by state actors to mobilize practical and moral grounds for governance based on a civic myth of kinship and public discourse that privileges family. Political familism addresses the processes by which states and citizens mutually constitute a set of public practices that reproduce the privileged position of “family,” even as specific family relations and practices diverge from discursive presumptions.

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The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

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Thousand Oak : sage publisher., 2011

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English

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00027162

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Vol. 636 no. 1, July 2011.pp. 150-163

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State
Citizenship
Lebanon
Political Familism in Lebanon
Patrimonialism
Familism

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