God, workers, women, and self: Convergences, accidents, and other uncertainties in half a century of fieldwork in Lebanon

Lebanon is a site of regional and global struggles, imagination, accidents, uncertainty. Convergences of its history and the author’s bring together issues of religion, politics, state, colonialism, global racial capital, poverty, class, citizenship, rights, gender, family, personhood, and self. The article reflects on the impact of these convergences on the author’s research over 50 years of fieldwork in the author’s native Lebanon.