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Ambiguities of Domination by Lisa Wedeen (with a new preface)
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- Pages
- 272
- Publication Date
- 2015-09-09
- Edition Number
- 2
- ISBN
- 9780226333373
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Ambiguities of Domination : Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syria
- Item Height
- 0.1in
- Item Length
- 0.8in
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Item Width
- 0.6in
- Item Weight
- 11.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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Treating rhetoric and symbols as central rather than peripheral to politics, Lisa Wedeen's 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-Asad's regime, his image was everywhere. In newspapers, on television, and during orchestrated spectacles. Asad was praised as the "father," the "gallant knight," even the country's "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. Wedeen's 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.
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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
022633337x
ISBN-13
9780226333373
eBay Product ID (ePID)
18038287609
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Ambiguities of Domination : Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syria
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2015
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
0.8in
Item Height
0.1in
Item Width
0.6in
Item Weight
11.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ds98.4.W43 2015
Edition Description
Enlarged Edition
Edition Number
2
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"Wedeen conveys with great force and intimacy the strategies, dilemmas, and paradoxes of authoritarianism in a very particular, very distinctive, cultural context.", Wedeen conveys with great force and intimacy the strategies, dilemmas, and paradoxes of authoritarianism in a very particular, very distinctive, cultural context.
Table of Content
Preface, 2015 Acknowledgments A Note on Transliteration 1. Believing in Spectacles 2. Killing Politics: Official Rhetoric and Permissable Speech 3. Acting "As If": The Story of M 4. Signs of Transgression 5. Complicating Compliance Notes Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2015
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Sociology / General, International Relations / General, General, World / Middle Eastern, Rhetoric, Middle East / General
Lccn
2015-020384
Dewey Decimal
320.95691
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Language Arts & Disciplines, History, Social Science, Political Science
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