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Lebanon continues to experience persistent crises, particularly in Beirut. How do residents cope daily? They adjust, reestablish routines, and cultivate resilience or resistance. Drawing upon lived experiences and research conducted since 2019, this paper examines the volatile landscape of Beirut.
With its high percentage of refugees, economic depression, demographic and religious diversity, ongoing instability, and complex politics, Lebanon is a country in timeless crises. Besides these embedded circumstances, a new crisis tends to loom daily in the capital, Beirut. So, how do the inhabitants cope with such volatile conditions? What mechanisms does the inhabitant develop to respond to an 'every moment' crisis? How do their reactions translate ‘on the ground’
Means, needs, and urgency dictate the individual's adopted strategy, which ranges from slight adaptation and adjustments to radical changes regarding basic everyday needs. Does reappropriating familiar geography and adjusting one’s previous life to a new routine indicate that practices enacted by local dwellers demonstrate resilience resistance or both?
Through observation of local phenomena and actions and informal conversations with Beirutis, the paper uncovers the transformation underway in the city’s urbanscape. We interpret it as a ‘radical resilience’ response by inhabitants to increase the resistance of socio-spatial systems. Starting from the scale of the private sphere, neighbourhood and urban context, the article portrays the city's 'every moment' rhythm and interrogates the necessity for a theory of insurgent planning practices to ground citizenship practices in actual landscapes and material realities.