Culture Revolutionized In Burning Country Chapter Analysis

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“All the Syrian people are living a nightmare, they can’t escape it. They had lives before and now they don’t.” – Maher, a Syrian refugee in Europe (Yassin-Kassab & Al-Shami, 2016, p. 147) This quote hit home with me while I was reading Chapter 7 “Dispossession and Exile” and Chapter 8 “Culture Revolutionized” in Burning Country by Robin Yassin-Kassab and Leila Al-Shami. Both chapters focused on the Syrian refugee crisis emerging from the constant protests and feuding stemming from the Syrian Revolution. Chapter 7 dealt primarily with detailing the various countries Syrian residents fled to and how it impacted both the migrant and the country receiving accepting the migrants. As well, it discussed the help the Syrian community received or lack thereof, from the International community. Chapter 8 looked at how the Syrian Revolution gave the people a new cultural identity that left them feeling more together than ever before. The common goal to fight against the oppression, left the people of Syria feeling reinvigorated and motivated. In this paper I will analyze these two chapters using Max Weber, the notion of the responsibility to protect and Charles Tilley’s Regime Variation framework.
Max Weber stated (1919), “The submission of the ruled in reality determined to a very great extent not only by motives of fear and hope compel people to say the ridiculous and to avow the absurd” (p.312) The culture in Syria has been controlled by Assad’s “metal hand” (p.163), since he took government. His face would be graffitied on walls,
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These theoretical lenses allow one to connect what is being brought to light by the authors in the textbook and the theories that can explain what is in between the

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