Book contents
- Good Rebel Governance
- Good Rebel Governance
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The “Good Governance Bazaar”
- 3 Reconceptualizing Rebel Governing Authority
- 4 Studying Syria “from the Verandah”
- 5 Raqqa’s Caliphal Social Contract
- 6 Saraqeb’s “Limited Access Order”
- 7 The Fervent Enclave of Darayya
- 8 Aleppo’s Republican Guild
- 9 The Syrian Interim Government as “Floating” Counter-State
- 10 Revolutionary Possibilities and International Imaginings
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
6 - Saraqeb’s “Limited Access Order”
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2023
- Good Rebel Governance
- Good Rebel Governance
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The “Good Governance Bazaar”
- 3 Reconceptualizing Rebel Governing Authority
- 4 Studying Syria “from the Verandah”
- 5 Raqqa’s Caliphal Social Contract
- 6 Saraqeb’s “Limited Access Order”
- 7 The Fervent Enclave of Darayya
- 8 Aleppo’s Republican Guild
- 9 The Syrian Interim Government as “Floating” Counter-State
- 10 Revolutionary Possibilities and International Imaginings
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
We turn from Raqqa – a site where the absence of connective ties deprived the Islamic State of citizen trust – to Saraqeb, where the bonds of solidarity heavily informed the local council’s governing model and authority. In late 2012, a Free Syrian Army (FSA) campaign made Saraqeb the first liberated town in northern Syria. Before the war, this small city of 50,000 inhabitants relied on agriculture and iron and oil production industries. Its location was important due to its proximity to Idlib City and its position along the main artery running from Turkey to Hama Governate further south.1 A local FSA affiliate, together with the locally bred Islamist militia, Ahrar al-Sham, succeeded in liberating the town from the Assad regime in November 2012.
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- Good Rebel GovernanceRevolutionary Politics and Western Intervention in Syria, pp. 86 - 104Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023