Waiting For The Revolution To End

Abstract

List of figures ix Preface xi Acknowledgements xv Note on transliteration xvii Glossary xviii Acronyms and organisations xix Introduction: living in the midst of defeat 1 Part 1 Revolution inside 1 The Syrian revolution: a struggle for dignity 29 2 Revolutionary spaces and subjects: people of the 'inside', people of the 'outside' 57 Part 2 End(ing)s outside 3 Of hospitality and displacement: life in a spatio-legal limbo 85 4 Temporality of the defeat: waiting in limbo 111 Part 3 Afterlives of defeat 5 From the political to the social: the speed and depth of revolutionary transformations 137 6 Making sense of the revolution's unexpected consequences: martyrdom, predestination, tragedy 161 Conclusion: rescaling the revolution 187 References 195 Index 209 GLOSSaRy xix Acronyms and organisations Daesh ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria). 'Daesh' represents the word formed by the equivalent acronym in Arabic. FSA Free Syrian Army. IDP Internally displaced people. PYD Partiya Yekîtiya Demokrat. Kurdish political party, in English, Democratic Union Party. YPG Yekîneyên Parastina Gel. Kurdish armed force, in English, People's Protection Units, associated with the PYD.