Waiting For The Revolution To End: Syrian displacement, time & subjectivity
Thu, 30 May
|IAS Forum, G17
Join us to discuss the themes of the book with author Charlotte Al-Khalili.
Time & Location
30 May 2024, 15:30 – 16:45
IAS Forum, G17, Gower St, London WC1E 6AE, UK
About the event
Waiting for the Revolution to End explores the Syrian revolution through the experiences of citizens in exile. Based on more than three years of embedded fieldwork with Syrians displaced in the border city of Gaziantep (southern Turkey), the book places the Syrian revolution and its tragic aftermath under ethnographic scrutiny. It charts the evolution from peaceful uprising (2011) to armed confrontation (2012), descent into fully fledged conflict (2013) and finally to proxy war (2015), to propose an understanding of revolution beyond success and failure.
The author and social anthropologist, Charlotte Al-Khalili, sits down with the Takhayyul Project to discuss her new book and the way in which the Syrian revolution (al-thawra), and revolutionary imaginaries more broadly, shape and transform the lived experiences and world views of those they touch. All members of the public are cordially invited.
About the speaker
Charlotte Al-Khalili is a Leverhulme Early Career fellow in anthropology at the University…