Familiar Futures - Time, Selfhood, and Sovereignty in Iraq

List of contents

Introduction: Iraqi Futures and the Age of Development

1. Sovereignty, Violence, and the Dual Mandate

2. Determining a Self

3. The Gendering of School Time

4. Generational Time and the Marriage Crisis

5. The Family Farm and the Peculiar Futurist Perspective of Development

6. Revolutionary Time and Wasted Time

7. Law and the Post-Revolutionary Self

Epilogue: Postcolonial Heterotemporalitiess

Product details

• Authors: Sara Pursley
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.01.2019
• EAN: 9780804793179
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-9317-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous