‘2011 unshackled the space’: spatial analysis of diverging youth political agency in the Syrian conflict

IF 1.1 Q3 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Conflict Security & Development Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI:10.1080/14678802.2023.2188569
Sarah Anne Rennick
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ABSTRACT Despite the passing in 2015 of UNSCR 2250 on Youth, Peace, and Security, the study of young people’s political agency in conflict, and the possibilities for empowerment and transformative change, remains sparse. This article investigates generative processes of youth political agency in the Syrian war since 2011 and under what conditions conflict has politically empowered/disempowered youth. Drawing on 72 interviews carried out with youth inside the country in the period 2019–2021, the article conducts spatial analysis to assess how the different spaces the conflict has produced inform youth agency. The article finds that the different degrees of agency are mediated by space-specific logics of security, autonomy and control. While some youth have experienced political empowerment, this has been limited to zones of autonomous governance; meanwhile, in regime-held zones, the spatial logic of authoritarian consolidation mediates political disappropriation. The article argues that this divergence has important implications for Syrian youth’s political subjectivities and the emergence of new inequalities that are further compounded by everyday tactics of movement restriction. Given the conflict’s likely denouement, transformative potential appears dim.
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“2011年解放空间”:叙利亚冲突中不同青年政治机构的空间分析
尽管2015年通过了关于青年、和平与安全的联合国安理会第2250号决议,但对冲突中年轻人的政治代理、赋权和变革的可能性的研究仍然很少。本文研究了自2011年以来叙利亚战争中青年政治机构的生成过程,以及冲突在什么条件下赋予青年政治权力/剥夺青年政治权力。根据2019-2021年期间对该国境内青年进行的72次访谈,本文进行了空间分析,以评估冲突产生的不同空间如何为青年机构提供信息。研究发现,不同程度的代理是由特定空间的安全、自治和控制逻辑所中介的。虽然一些青年经历了政治赋权,但这仅限于自治地区;与此同时,在政权控制的地区,威权巩固的空间逻辑调解了政治挪用。这篇文章认为,这种分歧对叙利亚青年的政治主体性和新的不平等现象的出现有着重要的影响,这种不平等现象因日常的行动限制策略而进一步加剧。考虑到冲突可能的结局,变革的潜力似乎很渺茫。
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