From Postcolonialism to Post-Arab Spring

IF 0.4 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
N. M. Zaamout
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Hamid Dabashi (2012) saw the Arab spring revolutions as a collective act of overcoming the colonial condition and retrieving a repressed cosmopolitan worldliness that has been overshadowed by the contradictions of postcolonial politics. Dabashi posits that the pluralist and egalitarian slogans of protesters were an expression of this worldliness. In this research I assess this claim in the context of Syria. I examine the question: Has this cosmopolitan orientation resurfaced in Syria? I argue that the 2011 Syrian uprising was a retrieval of what Dabashi describes as repressed cosmopolitan worldliness. It was a grassroots attempt to bring an inclusive meaning to Syrianism, consistent with the country’s boundaries and reflective of its ethnic and religious cosmopolitanism. The transformation of the crisis into a global proxy war has resulted in the rise of hundreds of armed groups driven by competing projects that have vacated the revolutionary attempt to redefine Syrianism.
从后殖民主义到后阿拉伯之春
哈米德·达巴希(2012)将阿拉伯之春革命视为克服殖民条件和恢复被后殖民政治矛盾所掩盖的压抑的世界主义世界的集体行动。达巴希认为,抗议者的多元化和平等主义口号就是这种世俗性的表达。在这项研究中,我在叙利亚的背景下评估了这一说法。我研究了一个问题:这种世界主义取向在叙利亚重新出现了吗?我认为,2011年的叙利亚起义是对达巴希所描述的被压抑的世界性的恢复。这是一次草根阶层的尝试,旨在为叙利亚主义带来包容的意义,符合国家的边界,反映其种族和宗教世界主义。这场危机转变为一场全球代理人战争,导致数百个武装组织在相互竞争的项目的推动下崛起,这些项目放弃了重新定义叙利亚主义的革命性尝试。
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Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication
Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-
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期刊介绍: The Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication provides a transcultural academic sphere that engages Middle Eastern and Western scholars in a critical dialogue about culture, communication and politics in the Middle East. It also provides a forum for debate on the region’s encounters with modernity and the ways in which this is reshaping people’s everyday experiences. MEJCC’s long-term objective is to provide a vehicle for developing the field of study into communication and culture in the Middle East. The Journal encourages work that reconceptualizes dominant paradigms and theories of communication to take into account local cultural particularities.
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