Familiar Futures
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Familiar Futures

Time, Selfhood, and Sovereignty in Iraq

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Familiar Futures

Time, Selfhood, and Sovereignty in Iraq

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Iraq was the first postcolonial state recognized as legally sovereign by the League of Nations amid the twentieth-century wave of decolonization movements. It also emerged as an early laboratory of development projects designed by Iraqi intellectuals, British colonial officials, American modernization theorists, and postwar international agencies. Familiar Futures considers how such projects—from the country's creation under British mandate rule in 1920 through the 1958 revolution to the first Ba'th coup in 1963—reshaped Iraqi everyday habits, desires, and familial relations in the name of a developed future.

Sara Pursley investigates how Western and Iraqi policymakers promoted changes in schooling, land ownership, and family law to better differentiate Iraq's citizens by class, sex, and age. Peasants were resettled on isolated family farms; rural boys received education limited to training in agricultural skills; girls were required to take home economics courses; and adolescents were educated on the formation of proper families. Future-oriented discourses about the importance of sexual difference to Iraq's modernization worked paradoxically, deferring demands for political change in the present and reproducing existing capitalist relations. Ultimately, the book shows how certain goods—most obviously, democratic ideals—were repeatedly sacrificed in the name of the nation's economic development in an ever-receding future.

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Publisher
Stanford University Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9781503607491
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Middle Eastern History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Note on Transliteration and Translation
  5. Introduction: Iraqi Futures and the Age of Development
  6. 1 Sovereignty, Violence, and the Dual Mandate
  7. 2 Determining a Self
  8. 3 The Gendering of School Time
  9. 4 The Stage of Adolescence and the Marriage Crisis
  10. 5 The Family Farm and the Peculiar Futurist Perspective of Development
  11. 6 Revolutionary Time and Wasted Time
  12. 7 Law and the Post-Revolutionary Self
  13. Epilogue: Postcolonial Heterotemporalities
  14. Notes
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index