Date of Award
Spring 5-1-2026
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Anthropology
First Advisor
Jonathan Shannon
Second Advisor
Farzad Amoozegar
Academic Program Adviser
Marc Edelman
Abstract
This thesis argues that the Syrian uprising of 2011 emerged as a sonic and embodied rupture within an authoritarian aesthetic regime that had long governed public sensibility. Through chants, song, and coordinated movement, political agency took form as collective, affective practice, transforming vernacular repertoires into infrastructures of mobilization, audibility, and resistance.
Recommended Citation
Shabani, Lynn, "Sonic Rupture and Embodied Politics:
Reconfiguring the Aesthetic Regime in the Syrian Uprising" (2026). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/1498
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