Presenting the “True Face of Syria” to the World
Urban Disorder and Civilizational Anxieties at the First Damascus International Exposition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8968656 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kevin W Martin (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 411a-411a |
| Publication date | 2010-07-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0020743810000747 |
| OpenAlex | W4248884691 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 39 |
International fairs—the “folk-festivals of capitalism”—have long been a favorite topic of historians studying quintessential phenomena of modernity such as the celebration of industrial productivity, the construction of national identities, and the valorization of bourgeois leisure and consumption in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Europe, the United States, and Latin America. To date, however, such spectacles occurring in the modern Middle East remain largely unexamined. This article, an analysis of the discourse surrounding the first Damascus International Exposition in 1954, is conceived in part as a preliminary effort to redress this historiographic imbalance
Art · Art history · Begging · Bourgeoisie · Capitalism · Consumption (sociology · Disarmament · Elite · Epistemology · Exhibition · Exposition (narrative · Face (sociological concept · Latin Americans · Literature · Meaning (existential · Modernity · Political science · Politics · Redress · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Gender Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Middle East Politics and Society · Philosophy
Powers of Horror
Divided Loyalties
The Badlands of Modernity
Geographies of Exclusion
Everyday Life and Consumer Culture in Eighteenth-Century Damascus
The Society of the Spectacle
Desiring Arabs
The Language of the Self
Transforming Damascus
Paris, Capital of Modernity
Being Modern in the Middle East
Questions Of Modernity
Dissident Syria
Representing Consumers
Authoritarianism in Syria
The Ideal of Community and the Politics of Difference
Purity and Danger
Bodies that Matter
Late Ottoman Damascus
Syrian Politics and the Military, 1945-1958
Social Control
The Struggle for Syria
The Struggle for Syria. A Study of Post-War Arab Politics 1945-1958
Purity and Danger
Discovering the World in Seville
Syrian Politics and the Military 1945-1958
The right to the city
Bodies That Matter
International Exhibitions and National Identity
Child-Focused Research
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2024 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |