Family Matters in Conflict: Displacement and the Formulation of Politics among Syrians in Lebanon and Turkey
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Family Matters in Conflict : Displacement and the Formulation of Politics among Syrians in Lebanon and Turkey. / Holst, Birgitte Stampe.
In: Conflict and Society: Advances in Research, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2023, p. 132-146.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Family Matters in Conflict
T2 - Displacement and the Formulation of Politics among Syrians in Lebanon and Turkey
AU - Holst, Birgitte Stampe
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Through an ethnographic account of quotidian family activities like cooking or watching the news, this article investigates how authoritarian history and ongoing conflict in Syria play out in the everyday life of Syrians displaced to Lebanon and Turkey. It traces the day-to-day activities through which the value of the anti-authoritarian actions of some family members is recalibrated in friction with the social and material price the family has paid for such actions, the futures various family members imagine for themselves and the particular family history of adaptation to authoritarian rule. The article argues that unfolding these recalibrations among the displaced allows us to see how Syrians formulate the conflict (also) as a family matter. Investigating this family layer of the conflict in turn alerts us to the ways in which political contestation and collaboration in authoritarian contexts is navigated (also) through ethical propositions related to the family.
AB - Through an ethnographic account of quotidian family activities like cooking or watching the news, this article investigates how authoritarian history and ongoing conflict in Syria play out in the everyday life of Syrians displaced to Lebanon and Turkey. It traces the day-to-day activities through which the value of the anti-authoritarian actions of some family members is recalibrated in friction with the social and material price the family has paid for such actions, the futures various family members imagine for themselves and the particular family history of adaptation to authoritarian rule. The article argues that unfolding these recalibrations among the displaced allows us to see how Syrians formulate the conflict (also) as a family matter. Investigating this family layer of the conflict in turn alerts us to the ways in which political contestation and collaboration in authoritarian contexts is navigated (also) through ethical propositions related to the family.
U2 - 10.3167/arcs.2023.090109
DO - 10.3167/arcs.2023.090109
M3 - Journal article
VL - 9
SP - 132
EP - 146
JO - Conflict and Society
JF - Conflict and Society
SN - 2164-4543
IS - 1
ER -
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