Introduction : violence and social transformation : Libya in theoretical perspective / Wolfram Lacher and Virginie Collombier -- I. Identity, community, and social relations -- No country for the young : the degeneration of a Libyan generation / Emadeddin Badi -- Women's changing roles in times of conflict / Rima Ibrahim -- Violence, displacement and social transformation in Sabha / Valerie Stocker and Reema al-Fallani -- 'Changed utterly' : how the 2014-2018 war transformed Benghazi's social fabric / Mary Fitzgerald -- The revenge of the defeated? The re-emergence of the Jamahiriya networks after 2011 / Virginie Collombier and Misbah Omar -- II. Power, resources and institutions -- The war for Benghazi : violence, paramilitarism and social rupturing, 2014-18 / Frederic Wehrey -- The post-revolutionary struggle for economic and social institutions / Tim Eaton -- Public sector without state / Wolfram Lacher -- Reality bites back : violence, power and international mediation in Libya / Christopher Thornton -- Afterword / Lisa Anderson.

"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 inter-personal 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."-- Taken from book cover.