Rule of Violence : Subjectivity, Memory and Government in Syria (9781108577243) by Ismail, Salwa -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Coverpage Half title Series page Title page Imprints page Contents Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: The Government of Violence

The Place of Violence in Government

Violence as Emplotted Horror: The Body and Affective Government The Political Uncanny

Violence and the Fashioning of Political Subjectivity

Abjection and Subjectivation

Social Memories of Violence and Regimes of Subjectivity A Note on Methods and Sources Structure of the Book

1 Violence as a Modality of Government in Syria

State of Exception, Sacralisation of Politics and the Civil War Regime The Prison Camp as an Apparatus of Government

Humiliation and Subjectivation A Zone of Abandonment Pedagogical Violence: Ta‘lim (Marking) Somatic Discipline: Breaking Bodies and Souls Breaking Borders and the Human-Non-Human Threshold Arts of Human Dying and of Human Living Overturning Oneself: A Polity at Ransom

The Politics of the Massacre in the Civil War Regime

The Will to Kill: Identifying the Enemy Population A Politics of Annihilation and Ruination Formations of Civil War

Conclusion

2 Authoritarian Government, the Shadow State and Political Subjectivities

Authoritarian Governmentality

Enframing Citizens, Forming Subjects The Politics of Security

Political Subjectivities and Everyday Discursive Civilities A Shadow State: The Political Economy of Subjectivation The Political Economy and Identitarian Dimensions of Clientelised Subjects From Homogenised Subjects to Exposed Subjects Conclusion

3 Memories of Life under Dictatorship: The Everyday of Ba‘thist Syria

Everyday Life under Dictatorship

Growing up in Ba‘thist Syria

The Ba‘th Generation: The School and the Youth of the Revolution Familial Life

Emblematic Frames of Everyday Life

Abjection and Precarity National Salvation

Retrieving the Self in Narratives of the National Conclusion

4 Memories of Violence: Hama 1982

The Hama Events in Fragments Remembering Hama: Managing and Inhabiting the Past

Multiple Syrian Pasts in the Work of Memory Conclusion

5 The Performativity of Violence and ‘Emotionalities of Rule’ in the Syrian Uprising

The Political Uncanny

The Politics of Massacre: Performative Violence

Generalised War Staging Slaughter

Body Horror Play of Mirrors: Interchangeability of Victims and Perpetrators Organised Mimicry and Phantasmatic Violence

Conclusion

Conclusion: The Rule of Violence – Formations of Civil War

Postscript References

Arabic Language References Online Audiovisual Sources Documentary Sources Newspapers and Magazines

Index Other Books in the Series