@article{fdi:010075087,
  title = {{F}rom local revolutionary action to exiled humanitarian work : activism in local social networks and communities' formation in the {S}yrian post-2011 context},
  author = {{R}uiz de {E}lvira, {L}aura},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{B}ased on empirical material collected in {L}ebanon and {T}urkey in 2014 and 2016, this paper focuses on {S}yrian activists and social aid networks operating from exile from 2011 onwards. {B}y paying attention to what these activists do and say, to their individual trajectories (namely during the 2011 period and the first months of popular protests), and to their immediate 'environment', {I} shed light on how they give meaning to their humanitarian activity and on how they relate to politics. {I} also explore the way in which activists explicitly and implicitly contribute to the changing political dynamics of the conflict, for instance by supporting and constructing {S}yrian (exiled, displaced and besieged) communities. {I}n so doing, {I} illustrate how informal networks created in situations of uprising may find an exit strategy by institutionalizing themselves and how they adapt to a context of war characterized by fluidity, the sudden pluralization of the political arena and the need to negotiate space and resources with multiple 'players.'},
  keywords = {{SYRIE} ; {LIBAN} ; {TURQUIE}},
  booktitle = {},
  journal = {{S}ocial {M}ovement {S}tudies},
  volume = {18},
  numero = {1},
  pages = {36--55},
  ISSN = {1474-2837},
  year = {2019},
  DOI = {10.1080/14742837.2018.1540346},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010075087},
}