Writing The Modern History Of Iraq.
Key Features:Most existing publications on Iraqi history present a succession of tragic events which would lead the reader to assume a sort of fatality in the country's evolution towards the present situationDue to deeper observation and analysis (between the local, the regional and the global;...
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Riccardo Bocco and Jordi Tejel
- 1. Dealing with the Past: Methodological Issues Peter Sluglett
- Advice from the Past: 'Ali al-Wardi on Literature and Society Orit Bashkin
- Representations of the Iraqi Intellectual
- Wardi's Complaint
- Words of Advice
- Writing the History of Iraq: the Fallacy of "Objective" History Johan Franzen
- The Sectarian Master Narrative in Iraqi Historiography Reidar Visser
- How the Sectarian Master Narrative Works
- Three Kinds of Imposition of Sectarian Themes
- How the Sectarian Master Narrative can be Counterbalanced
- Electronic references
- Beyond Political Ruptures: Towards a Historiography of Social Continuity in Iraq Peter Harling
- The 2003 Rupture/Transition
- Tribal "Loyalties"
- Sunni Arab Trends
- An Intra-Shi'i Struggle
- What the Civil War Revealed
- Conclusions
- Electronic references
- 2. The Monarchist Era Revisited Jordi Tejel
- What did it mean to be an Iraqi during the Monarchy? Hala Fattah
- From Forty-One to Qadisiyyat Saddam: Remarks on an Iraqi Realm of Memory Peter Wien
- Forty-One in Perspective
- Engineering Public Memory Under Qasim
- The Ba'th and the Mosul Spring Festival
- Qadisiyyat Saddam
- Khayr Allah Tulfah and the Four Officers
- Conclusion
- Building the Nation through the Production of Difference Sara Pursley
- Masculine Time, Feminine Space, and Arab Unity: Sati' al-Husri and the Schooling of Iraqi Girls in the 1920s
- Learning by Doing: Pragmatist Philosophy and the Differentiated Curriculum
- What the School Builds the Home Destroys: The Gendering of Education, 1932-1952
- Unfit for Marriage and Motherhood: The Crisis of Girls' Education and the Age of Development, 1952-1958
- 3. Rethinking the Ba'thist Period Hamit Bozarslan.
- Digging the Past: The Historiography of Archaeology in Modern Iraq Magnus T. Bernhardsson
- The International Period 1808-1921
- The National Period 1921-1941
- The Independence and Sanctions Periods 1941-2003
- The Period of Fragmentation, 2003-present
- Totalitarianism Revisited: Framing the History of Ba'thist Iraq Achim Rohde
- Comparative Perspectives
- Recovering or Inventing Public Opinion and Dissent in Ba'thist Iraq
- State-Society Relations in Liberal and Authoritarian Systems
- Conclusion
- How to "Turn the Page" Fanny Lafourcade
- The Central Role of Ahmad Chalabi
- A Specific Narrative on the Ba'th Era
- What is de-Ba'thification?
- The Excesses of de-Ba'thification
- The Emergence of an Alternate Voice
- A Minority Discourse
- The de-Ba'thification Issue and the Iraqi Civil War
- The Battle turns Parliamentarian
- The 2008 Law, a Victory for Opponents of de-Ba'thification Reform
- Revenge vs Reconciliation
- Electronic references
- 4. Dealing with Victimhood: Whose Memories of Mass Violence? Between Oral and Official History
- Fragmented Memory, Competing Narratives Karin Mlodoch
- Introduction
- Traumatic Memory, Fragmented Memory
- "With our Husbands gone our Lives have Disappeared": Experiences, Memories and Narratives of Women Survivors of the Anfal in Germyan
- Hopes and Disappointments and the Transformation of Memories and Narratives after the Fall of the Ba'th Regime in 2003
- Representation of Anfal Survivors' Memories and Narratives in Public Discourse in Iraqi Kurdistan
- Delay and Hesitation in Dealing with the Past on the Iraqi National Level
- Conclusion
- Electronic references
- The Concept of Genocide as Part of Knowledge Production in Iraqi Kurdistan Andrea Fischer-Tahir
- Who is Speaking?
- Who is being Quoted?
- What do They Say About the Anfal Campaign?.
- Whom are the Texts Addressing?
- The West
- The Iraqi Arabs
- The Iraqi Kurds
- The 1991 Intifada in Three Keys: Writing the History of Violence Dina Rizk Khoury
- Where doWe Locate the "Truth"? The Problems of Sources and Evidence
- The Ba'th Party Archival Record
- Witnessing the Uprising: Witnessing as Politics and Rhetoric
- The "End of Days": Oral Histories of the Intifada
- Conclusion
- Electronic references
- 'Qadisiyat Saddam': The Gamble that did not Pay Off Cherine Chams El Dine
- 1982 Iraqi Withdrawal and Necessity of Internal Reshuffles
- "The cup drunk down to the last drop": the military collapse and the new crisis
- Confrontation with the Iraqi Military Command
- Extraordinary Ba'th Congress (July 10, 1986)
- al-Thawra al-Idariyya (The administrative revolution)
- Wide Ministerial Reshuffle (1987)
- 5. Shi'i Actors in Post-Saddam Iraq: Partisan Historiography Peter Sluglett
- Introduction
- The Papers
- Partisan and Global Identity in the Historiography of Iraqi Religious Institutions Robert J. Riggs
- Biography of 'Ali Sistani
- Sistani's Fatwas
- Sistani's Public Statements
- The Clerical Veto
- Conclusions
- Electronic references
- Najaf and the (Re)Birth of Arab Shi'i Political Thought Michaelle Browers
- The nahda from Najaf
- The First Generation and the Call for Reform
- The Middle Generation and the Modernist Project
- The Third Generation: Toward a Revolutionary Islamism
- Electronic reference
- Between Action and Symbols Elvire Corboz
- The Internal Organization of SAIRI's Leadership: Replicating Interpersonal Ties with the Iraqi marja'iyya
- Social Services: Operational and Symbolic Performance
- Mass Politics and Armed Struggle: The Mobilizing Power of Shi'i Iraqi Themes
- Conclusion
- Electronic reference.
- 6. The Politics of Population Movements in Contemporary Iraq: A Research Agenda Geraldine Chatelard
- Nation Building and State Control over Population Movements
- Control over Mobility and Political Coercion
- Political Migration and the Reversal of Violence
- The Brain Drain in Iraq after the 2003 Invasion Joseph Sassoon
- The US Invasion and its Aftermath
- The Spread of Violence
- The Loss of the Middle Class
- Electronic references
- Cosmopolitanism and Iraqi Migration Diane Duclos
- Iraqi Migration: The Case of Artists and Intellectuals
- Artists and Intellectuals: "Generations" of Migrants
- Appealing to Life Stories in Migration Studies
- Life Stories as a Methodology
- Interdisciplinarity at Stake
- Multi-sited Fieldwork
- The Contribution of Cosmopolitanism to the Iraqi Migration Studies
- Cosmopolitanism in Dimension(s)
- Cosmopolitanism and Migration
- Remembering Cosmopolitan Baghdad from Outside: Nostalgia within Narratives
- Disengaging from Confessional Approaches in Iraqi Studies?
- 7. Representing Iraq History through the Arts Hamit Bozarslan
- Literary Glimpses of Modern Iraqi History and Society Sami Zubaida
- Fu'ad al-Takarli, al-Raj' al-Ba'id (The Long Way Back)
- Ali Badr, Baba Sartre
- Hayat Sharara, Idha al-Ayamu Aghsaqat (When Darkness Fell)
- Conclusion
- History and Fiction in the New Iraqi Cinema Lucia Sorbera
- One Century of Iraqi Cinema and Beyond
- Being a Filmmaker after the Fall
- Novels of Everyday Life as Told by the "Embargo Generation"
- The Return to the Homeland and Memories
- The Problems of Iraqi Cinema Today
- Conclusions
- War, Crimes and Video Tapes: Conflicting Memories in Films on Iraq Nicolas Masson
- Shifting Visual Representations of Iraq
- Changing Strategic Spaces
- Digital Pictures as "Transition Structures"
- Appropriating Iraq's Traumatic History.
- The Return of "Abu Tabar"
- Conclusion
- Electronic references
- Poetry in the Service of Nation Building? Political Commitment and Self-Assertion Leslie Tramontini
- The Concept of the Nation
- Strategies of Self-Assertion: The Early Years
- Strategies of Self-Assertion in the War Poetry of the 1980s
- Conclusion
- Electronic references
- Not Just "For Art's Sake": Exhibiting Iraqi Art in the West after 2003 Silvia Naef
- Modern Art in Iraq - The Emergence of a Local Art Scene1
- Exhibiting Iraqi Art: European Initiatives
- The AyaGallery, London
- "Baghdad Renaissance", Galerie M, Paris, 2003
- "Baghdad-Paris", Musee du Montparnasse, Paris, 2005/6
- "The Iraqi Equation"
- Exhibitions in the United States
- Iraqi Book Art or "Dafatir"
- The Pomegranate Gallery - Iraqi Art in SoHo
- "Iraqi Artists in Exile", The Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, 2008-2009
- "It is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq", The New Museum, New York, 2009
- Iraqi Art Exhibitions between Politics and Art History
- Art Against War
- The Place of Iraqi Art on the Global Art Scene
- Electronic references
- Appendix: State of the Art on Iraqi Studies: A Bibliographical Survey of English and French Sources Hamit Bozarslan and Jordi Tejel
- The Period of Foundation and Consolidation
- The Decades of "Revolutions" and Tyranny
- After the 2003 War
- Ethnic and Sectarian Communities and Tribalism
- Notes on Contributors
- About the Editors
- About the Authors
- Bibliography
- Index of Geographical Names, Commodities, and Themes
- Index of Individuals and Groups
- Map of Iraq.