Witnessing as Resistance: Memories and the Performance of Truth in response to Assad's Syria

通过对参与性研讨会的研究，这些研讨会关注的是2011年后叙利亚政权控制下的日常政治暴力形式，这位博士建议研究作为抵抗形式的证词实践的一部分出现的模棱两可的情况。通过关注具体的例子，本研究旨在进一步推论见证与真相和叙事的关系的片面性和易错性，以及记忆和预期在记录、理解和叙述新经历中所起的作用。这项以实践为导向的研究旨在激活讲习班期间收集的材料，制作一场表演，将研究结果置于现有的集体记忆工作中，并向更广泛的受众传播见证实践的动态。这项研究将建立在现有的关于见证和记忆研究的基础上，以及与意识形态和话语的关系中的出没和主观性。

Through the study of participatory workshops that focus on every-day forms of political violence in regime-held Syria post-2011, this PhD proposes to research the ambiguities that arise as part of testimonial practices as a form of resistance. In focusing on concrete examples, this research aims to further theorise the partial and fallible nature of witnessing in relationship to truth and narrative, and the role played by memory and anticipation in registering, making sense of, and recounting new experiences. This practice-led research aims to activate materials gathered during the workshops by developing a performance which will situate the findings in existing work on collective memory andcommunicate the dynamics of testimonial practices to a wider audience. This research will build upon existing scholarship on witnessing and memory studies, and haunting and subjectivity in relationship to ideology and discourse.