Why is Lebanon invisible? New Video available on TWAILR

Why is Lebanon Invisible?

I argue that this invisibility is underpinned by shifting parameters of what constitutes acceptable carnage, itself symptomatic of a changing world order.
Once again, I find myself struck by the elasticity of liberal international legal language, stretched in this historical moment to distort reality and breathe life into a collapsing order.

The video of my intervention at the Said Symposium, held last May at the University of Kent, is now available. In it, I build on Said’s later work, with his well-known image in southern Lebanon behind me, to reflect on the role of legal language in sustaining the invisibility of the carnage in Lebanon.

As will be apparent, the video captures something of a rapidly unfolding train of thought, my hope is that these ideas are more systematically communicated in my forthcoming book on corporate war profiteering.

https://twailr.com/why-is-lebanon-invisible/