Wedeen Lisa Ambiguities of Domination: Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syria 9780226333373

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Автор: Wedeen Lisa
Название: Ambiguities of Domination: Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syria
ISBN: 9780226333373
Издательство: Wiley
Классификация:

Семантика, дискурсивный анализ и пр.

Культурология

Политология и политическая философия

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ISBN-10: 022633337X
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 272
Вес: 0.36 кг.
Дата издания: 09.09.2015
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: , black & white illustrations
Размер: 218 x 140 x 26
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: Politics, rhetoric, and symbols in contemporary syria
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Treating rhetoric and symbols as central rather than peripheral to politics, Lisa Wedeens groundbreaking book offers a compelling counterargument to those who insist that politics is primarily about material interests and the groups advocating for them. During the thirty-year rule of President Hafiz al-Asads regime, his image was everywhere. In newspapers, on television, and during orchestrated spectacles. Asad was praised as the father, the gallant knight, even the countrys premier pharmacist. Yet most Syrians, including those who create the official rhetoric, did not believe its claims. Why would a regime spend scarce resources on a personality cult whose content is patently spurious?

Wedeen shows how such flagrantly fictitious claims were able to produce a politics of public dissimulation in which citizens acted as if they revered the leader. By inundating daily life with tired symbolism, the regime exercised a subtle, yet effective form of power. The cult worked to enforce obedience, induce complicity, isolate Syrians from one another, and set guidelines for public speech and behavior. Wedeens ethnographic research demonstrates how Syrians recognized the disciplinary aspects of the cult and sought to undermine them. In a new preface, Wedeen discusses the uprising against the Syrian regime that began in 2011 and questions the usefulness of the concept of legitimacy in trying to analyze and understand authoritarian regimes.

Ambiguities of Domination: Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syria, Wedeen Lisa