Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syria
Wedeen, Lisa (Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago, USA)
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Hardback
200 pages
9 Halftones, 19 Line Drawings
Published: 2000
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
ISBN / EAN: 0226877876
This work examines Asad's cult acts as a disciplinary device, generating a politics of public dissimulation in which citizens act "as if" they revered their leader. The ethnographic research demonstrates how Syrians recognize the disciplinary aspects of
