The Rule of Violence: Subjectivity, Memory and Government in Syria
- Submitting institution
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School of Oriental and African Studies
- Unit of assessment
- 19 - Politics and International Studies
- Output identifier
- 25805
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1017/9781139424721
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781107698604
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- July
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This book is the first in-depth study of governmental violence in Syria under the Asad regime. The product of years of research, it shows how institutions and practices of violence came to be constitutive of the Syrian polity and of Syrian political subjectivities. It is based on extensive fieldwork in Syria, which includes two field stays of six months each and several shorter visits. It draws on 150 open-ended interviews conducted in Syria, and on tens of interviews with exiled Syrians following the 2011 Uprising. It uses vast documentary sources that comprise prison memoirs, diaries, novels, documentaries, and official publications.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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