Rebel Populism

Revolution and Loss Among Syrian Labourers in Beirut

Rebel Populism
Philip Proudfoot
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h234 x 156mm - 248pg
26 Apr 2022 UK
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9781526158109
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Workers from the Syrian diaspora have maintained a presence in Lebanon for decades, building multimillion-dollar apartment complexes, toiling for backbreaking hours in grocery stores. From the mid-2000s, liberalising reforms saw accelerating levels of poverty among workers, often paid as low as $20 per day. Instead of ' opportunity' , workers faced the prospect of indefinite economic exile, the unending drudgery of hard labour, and a constant struggle to make ends meet. But in 2011, revolution came to Syria. Rural towns and villages exploded in revolt, but even those workers who remained in Beirut found means to protest at a distance. Their movement, which this book identifies as ' rebel populism,' represents an early instance of an increasingly common global contentious political formation, a form of mass politics that emerges not via a charismatic orator or developed ideological convictions, but through the weaving together of grievances aimed at the ruling class.
Philip Proudfoot is a Research Fellow in Power and Popular Politics at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex
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ISBN-13: 9781526158109
Published: 26 Apr 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 234mm
Width: 156mm
Pages: 248

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