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082 0 4 _a956.910422
_bISM
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100 1 _aIsmail, Salwa,
_eauthor.
245 1 4 _aThe rule of violence :
_bsubjectivity, memory and government in Syria /
_cSalwa Ismail, University of London.
264 1 _aCambridge ;
_aNew York :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2018.
300 _axiii, 225 pages ;
_c24 cm.
336 _2rdacontent
_atext
_btxt
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
_bn
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
490 0 _aCambridge Middle East studies
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _a"Over much of its rule, the Syrian regime of Hafez al-Asad and his successor, Bashar al-Asad, used violence on a massive scale, deploying disproportionate physical and destructive force to silence its critics and opponents. Indeed, the regime, as constituted under the al-Asads, has as its nucleus not only the figures occupying the top rung of political office, but also the apparatuses of violence, in particular the security services and elite military units. This security regime (al-nidham al-amni) has consistently acted in ways that convey the message that violence is the primary and organising modality of action in dealing with domestic opposition. The extent and scope of killing and destruction mounted by the security and military forces over approximately 40 years of al-Asad regime rule has made manifest a politics of extermination and annihilation as integral to the form of rule in Syria. Rather than betraying an irrational approach to government, this violence is governmental, not in the sense of being merely repressive, but as productive and performative--as shaping regime-citizen relations and forming political subjectivities"--
650 7 _aPolitical violence
_zSyria
_xHistory
_y20th century.
_2BUEsh
650 7 _aPolitical violence
_zSyria
_xHistory
_y21st century.
_2BUEsh
651 7 _aSyria
_xPolitics and government
_y1971-2000.
_2BUEsh
_932261
651 7 _aSyria
_xPolitics and government
_y2000-
_2BUEsh
_932262
653 _bBUSBOL
_cMarch2019
655 _vReading book
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