State and society in Iraq : citizenship under occupation, dictatorship and democratisation / edited by Benjamin Isakhan, Shamiran Mako, Fadi Dawood.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dawood, Fadi, editor.

Isakhan, Benjamin, 1977- editor.

Mako, Shamiran, editor.

Series:

Library of modern Middle East studies ; 195.

Library of modern Middle East studies ; 195

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Citizenship--Iraq.

Citizenship.

Democracy--Iraq.

Democracy.

Iraq--Politics and government--20th century.

Iraq.

Iraq--Politics and government--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 329 pages)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017.

Summary:

"The activities of ISIS since 2014 have brought back to centre stage a series of very old and very troubling questions about the integrity and viability of the Iraqi state. However, most analysts have framed recent events in terms of their immediate past and without the contextual background to explain their evolution. State and Society in Iraq moves beyond a short-sighted analysis to place the complex and contested nature of Iraqi politics within a broader and deeper historical examination. In doing so, the chapters demonstrate that beyond the overwhelming emphasis on failed occupations, cruel tyrants, ethnic separatists and violent religious fanatics, is an Iraqi people who have routinely agitated against the state, advocated for legitimate and accountable government, and called for inter-communal harmony.When, the authors maintain, the Iraqi people are given agency in the complex process of consent, negotiation and resistance that underpin successful state-society relations, the nation can move beyond patterns of oppression and cruelty, of dangerous rhetoric and divisive politics, and towards a cohesive, peaceful and prosperous future - despite the many difficulties and the steep challenges that lie ahead."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Introduction: State Society Relations in Iraq: Negotiating a Contested Historiography / Benjamin Isakhan and Fadi Dawood

Part I: Colonial Rule and the Making of Modern Iraq. Chapter 1: The Ba'qubah Refugee Camp, 1919-22: State-Society Relations in Occupied Iraq / Fadi Dawood

Chapter 2: State-Society Relations in the Iraqi Urban Sphere of Baghdad and Kirkuk, 1920-58 / Arbella Bet-Shlimon

Chapter 3: The Government is the Servant of the People': State and Society in the Short Stories of Shakir Khuṣbak and Gha'ib Ṭu'ma Farman / Hilla Peled-Shapira

Chapter 4: Education Policy in Iraq, 1921-58: Competing Visions of the State / Hilary Falb Kalisman

Chapter 5: Military-Society Relations in Iraq, 1920-58: Competing Roles of the Army / Ibrahim Al-Marashi

Part II: Republican Iraq: State-Society Relations Under Authoritarian Rule. Chapter 6: Dangerous liaisons': Abd al-Karim Qasim and the Student Movements of the First Iraqi Republic, 1958-63 / Jordi Tejel

Chapter 7. Assyrians and the Early Ba'thist Period in Iraq: Between State and Non-State Actors / Alda Benjamen and Sargon George Donabed

Chapter 8. Ba'thi Iraq in the 1970s: Historiography of Medieval Islam and Contemporary Politics / Amatzia Baram

Chapter 9. Ba'thist Penetration of Shi'a Religious Institutions / Samuel Helfont

Part III. Communal Strife and Re-Emergent Authoritarianism in Post-2003 Iraq. Chapter 10. The Consolidation of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and the Integrity of the Iraqi State / Gareth Stansfield

Chapter 11. Political Parties, Elections and the Transformation of Iraqi Politics Since 2003 / Marc Lemieux and Shamiran Mako

Chapter 12. The Road to the 'Islamic State': State-Society Relations after the US Withdrawal from Iraq / Benjamin Isakhan

Conclusion: Lessons from the Past for a Future Iraq / Benjamin Isakhan and Shamiran Mako

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-315) and index.

ISBN:

9781838609122

1838609121

9781838609139

183860913X

9781350988217

1350988219

OCLC:

1166399324