Rebel populism : revolution and loss among Syrian labourers in Beirut / Philip Proudfoot

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Proudfoot, Philip, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Syria--History--Civil War, 2011---Refugees.

Syria.

Protest movements--Syria--History--21st century.

Protest movements.

Foreign workers--Lebanon--Beirut.

Foreign workers.

Physical Description:

xiii, 215 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester [UK] : Manchester University Press, 2022

Summary:

"This book is a study of revolutionary politics among male Syrian migrant workers in Beirut at a time of uprising, war, and refugee crisis. It is based on extended periods of fieldwork carried out from 2012 to 2017. The purpose of this book is to fill a rather startling gap in ethnographic work on the Arab Spring. Namely, the lack of long-term ethnographic studies into the development of oppositional political positions among hitherto 'non-political' people."--Preface

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Cynicism, socialism, and labour migration

2. Rebel populism and rupture

3. Art, uprising, and smartphones

4. Rebel-martyrs

5. Masculinity in (a) crisis

6. Conspiracy, sectarianism, and the failure of the uprising.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

1526158108

9781526158109

OCLC:

1276933129