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Exchange Ideologies: Commerce, Language, and Patriarchy in Preconflict Aleppo

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York: Cornell University Press, 2023Description: 204 p., 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781501768309
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Introduction: Exchange Ideologies, Patriarchy, and Economic Liberalization in Syria -- 1. Aleppo in Space and Time -- 2. Exchange Ideologies of Urban-Rural Difference -- 3. Merchant Patriarchy and the State -- 4. Economic Patriarchy and Contested Modernities -- 5. The Hospitality Economy -- 6. Civic Patronage -- 7. Affective Economies of Sincerity and Economic Liberalization in Aleppo -- Conclusion: Exchange Ideologies and the Futures of the Syrian Nation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: "The book is an account of economic liberalization in Aleppo in the 2000s as a social and cultural process as much as a political and economic one. It charts the understandings of commerce and of merchants that came to the fore in Syria as Baathism declined as an official ideology." --Provided by publisher.
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Books Books Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo (NVIC) Library Main Library - 0.01 S 1210 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available S 1210

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Exchange Ideologies, Patriarchy, and Economic Liberalization in Syria -- 1. Aleppo in Space and Time -- 2. Exchange Ideologies of Urban-Rural Difference -- 3. Merchant Patriarchy and the State -- 4. Economic Patriarchy and Contested Modernities -- 5. The Hospitality Economy -- 6. Civic Patronage -- 7. Affective Economies of Sincerity and Economic Liberalization in Aleppo -- Conclusion: Exchange Ideologies and the Futures of the Syrian Nation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

"The book is an account of economic liberalization in Aleppo in the 2000s as a social and cultural process as much as a political and economic one. It charts the understandings of commerce and of merchants that came to the fore in Syria as Baathism declined as an official ideology." --Provided by publisher.

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