Reckoning with the Inevitable: Death and Dying among Syrian Christians during the Uprising

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Since 15 March 2011, Syria has seen a humanitarian crisis escalate and we are now witnessing outright civil war in many parts of the country. From a relatively peaceful start, the whole affair has turned ugly. Bombs are exploding not just in remote parts of Syria but in its largest cities. Death and dying has now become a salient feature of Syrian life, both inside and outside its national borders. It is this salience of death and dying that I explore in this paper. My focus will be on Syrian Christians and their ways of perceiving the materiality of death. Most centrally, I argue that the fear of extinction that death and dying evoke in the minority prevents them from embracing oppositional politics and is instead used by the regime to propagate the fact that it alone will be able to ensure a future for all of the country's citizens.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelThe Afterlife in the Arab Spring
RedaktørerAmira Mittermaier
Antal sider21
UdgivelsesstedLondon and New York
ForlagTaylor & Francis
Publikationsdato20 okt. 2015
Sider89-109
Kapitel4
ISBN (Trykt)978-1-138-67392-2
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 20 okt. 2015

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