Al-Khalili, Charlotte;
(2023)
Waiting for the Revolution to End: Syrian displacement, time and subjectivity.
[Book].
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
Waiting for the Revolution to End explores the Syrian revolution through the experiences of citizens in exile. Based on more than three years of embedded fieldwork with Syrians displaced in the border city of Gaziantep (southern Turkey), the book places the Syrian revolution and its tragic aftermath under ethnographic scrutiny. It charts the evolution from peaceful uprising (2011) to armed confrontation (2012), descent into fully fledged conflict (2013) and finally to proxy war (2015), to propose an understanding of revolution beyond success and failure. While the Assad regime remains in place, the Syrian revolution (al-thawra) still holds a transformational power that can be located on intimate and world-making scales. Charlotte Al-Khalili traces the unintended consequences of revolution and its unexpected consequences to reveal the reshaping of Syrian life-worlds and exiles’ evolving theorizations, experiences and imaginations of al-thawra. She describes the in-between spatio-temporal realm inhabited by Syrians displaced to Turkey as they await the revolution’s outcomes, and maps the revolution’s multidimensional and multi-scalar effects on their everyday life. By following the chronology of events inside Syria and Syrians’ geography of displacement, the book makes the relation between revolution and displacement its centerpiece, both as an ethnographic object and an analytical device.
| Type: | Book |
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| Title: | Waiting for the Revolution to End: Syrian displacement, time and subjectivity |
| ISBN: | 9781800085039 |
| ISBN-13: | 9781800085039 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/9781800085039 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. This licence allows you to share and adapt the work for non-commercial use providing attribution is made to the author and publisher (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work) and any changes are indicated. Attribution should include the following information: Al-Khalili, C. 2023. Waiting for the Revolution to End: Syrian displacement, time and subjectivity. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800085039 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | revolution, migration, Syria, ethnography, Assad regime, displacement |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10177319 |
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