(Read now) Ambiguities of Domination: Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syria
✿ Lisa Wedeen ✿
| #997362 in Books | 1999-06-15 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x.70 x5.50l,.66 | File Name: 0226877884 | 251 pages
||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Analysis of Syria's pseudo-cult of personality|By Tron Honto|When I first traveled to Syria in the late 90's, I found the eerie, creepy phenomenon of what Wedeen terms Syria's state cult to be the most inscrutable, absurd and mind-boggling feature of the entire land-scape. After Asad's death, the succession of his son, Bashar, saw the ubiquity of his father's visage decline n|About the Author|
Lisa Wedeen is professor in and chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago and the author of Peripheral Visions: Publics, Power, and Performance in Yemen.
In Syria, the image of President Hafiz al-Asad is everywhere. In newspapers, on television, and during orchestrated spectacles Asad is praised as the "father," the "gallant knight," even the country's "premier pharmacist." Yet most Syrians, including those who create the official rhetoric, do not believe its claims. Why would a regime spend scarce resources on a cult whose content is patently spurious?
Wedeen concludes that Asad's cult acts as a disciplinary... [PDF.ob01] Ambiguities of Domination: Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syria Rating: 4.97 (540 Votes)
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