Book contents
- Good Rebel Governance
- Good Rebel Governance
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The “Good Governance Bazaar”
- 3 Reconceptualizing Rebel Governing Authority
- 4 Studying Syria “from the Verandah”
- 5 Raqqa’s Caliphal Social Contract
- 6 Saraqeb’s “Limited Access Order”
- 7 The Fervent Enclave of Darayya
- 8 Aleppo’s Republican Guild
- 9 The Syrian Interim Government as “Floating” Counter-State
- 10 Revolutionary Possibilities and International Imaginings
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
7 - The Fervent Enclave of Darayya
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2023
- Good Rebel Governance
- Good Rebel Governance
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The “Good Governance Bazaar”
- 3 Reconceptualizing Rebel Governing Authority
- 4 Studying Syria “from the Verandah”
- 5 Raqqa’s Caliphal Social Contract
- 6 Saraqeb’s “Limited Access Order”
- 7 The Fervent Enclave of Darayya
- 8 Aleppo’s Republican Guild
- 9 The Syrian Interim Government as “Floating” Counter-State
- 10 Revolutionary Possibilities and International Imaginings
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
When we turned to the besieged Damascene suburb of Darayya, we found a very different narrative emerging around the production and evolution of rebel governance from those in Raqqa and Saraqeb. Darayya, a mere 8 kilometers from the country’s capital, sat close to the regime’s military airport, the General Intelligence Service Headquarters, and the Interior Ministry.1 The accounts from this place were not of people controlled by an occupying rebel force or an emergent limited access order, but rather a community – rebels included – that had cohered as the target of a sustained, merciless siege by the regime on account of its early and enthusiastic participation in the uprising.
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- Good Rebel GovernanceRevolutionary Politics and Western Intervention in Syria, pp. 105 - 120Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023