Marching Backwards into Battle: On the Use of Dignity / كرامة in the Syrian revolution
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The concept of dignity takes on a strange complexion when thinking through its double use by both the regime and its opponents in Syria since 2011. Like Bashar al-Assad, dignity seems to have two bodies. One belongs to the period of the Arab revolutions, events that some scholars once hoped would herald the end of postcoloniality (Dabashi 2012); the other to the anticolonial struggle for dignity enshrined in the postcolonial state (Harkin 2017). Drawing on Quentin Skinner (2002) and Reinhard Koselleck (2004), the essay proposes a method for analysing lexical continuity and semantic shift in the lexicon of the Syrian revolution. Through RG Collingwood's (1939) method of arguing back from the solution to the problem, I analyse why dignity, and not another term such as democracy, became a central demand of the Syrian revolution.
Originalsprog | Engelsk |
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Tidsskrift | Lexique Vivant de La Révolution et de La Guerre En Syrie |
Udgave nummer | June, 2023 |
Antal sider | 26 |
DOI | |
Status | Udgivet - 2023 |
ID: 368803085