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About this book
This book provides an exhaustive analysis of the relationship between violence, urban space, and political subjectivity in Syria. It does so through an exploration of how urbicide, the violent destruction and alteration of the urban fabric, becomes a tool for the regime's governmental and sovereign exercise of power, decisively redefining state-society dynamics and cementing political loyalty in Syria. Adopting a critical and postcolonial perspective, and through the cases of Damascus and Aleppo, the volume presents a unique perspective on the civil war by examining socio-material changes in everyday political spaces and processes, from mundane destruction to urban development and reconstruction efforts, and how these are experienced by local communities. Featuring rich data collection through interviews, archival research, and aesthetic sources, the book ultimately foregrounds Syrians' political agency and creativity despite ruination.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Editor
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Conceptualising urbicide in the Middle East: a postcolonial approach
- 2 Shaping modern subjects: Syria under the French Mandate
- 3 Assad and the politics of space
- 4 Mapping an alternative Syria: space and the politics of the Syrian uprising
- 5 Whoever holds Damascus holds Syria
- 6 Searching for a place on a map of Aleppo
- Conclusion
- Selected bibliography
- Index