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Middle East/African Studies
Edited by Virginie Collombier & Wolfram Lacher
June 2023 9781787389427 216mm x 138mm 368pp £45.00 Hardback Sociology / War Studies World rights
The definitive interdisciplinary volume on Libyan society’s transformations over a decade of conflict and insecurity.
Ten years after Libya descended into conflict, the contours of a new society are emerging. How has violence remade the country—what has happened to inter-community and interpersonal relations, to social hierarchies and elite composition? Which new groups, networks and identities have formed through conflict, and how has this transformed power structures, modes of capital accumulation and governance at the local and national levels? How has the violence contributed to create new communities, both inside the country and in exile?
This volume brings together leading researchers, both foreign and Libyan, to examine the deep changes undergone by Libya’s society amid civil war. These transformations are bound to shape the country for decades to come, and will influence its relations with the outside world. By addressing neglected yet crucial aspects of social change amid violence, the contributors substantially broaden the picture of Libyan society beyond the current confines of scholarship, as well as enriching wider debates in Conflict Studies.
Virginie Collombier is Professor of Practice at Luiss Guido Carli University in Rome. She has led several projects combining research and mediation in Libya. Wolfram Lacher is a senior associate at Berlin’s German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), and the author of Libya’s Fragmentation.
