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conference on iraq - 20-02-28 [c780567b]

Tags: iraq, grad school

Notes from the Iraqi conference: cih.columbia.edu/iraqi-studies-past-present-and-future/ Archive: pinboard.in/cached/38304eb62267/

  • October Revolution - Davis

    • Definition of grpups that define themselves as "iraqi"
    • Ultimiately a war of position
    • emotional baggage generated from the post-2003

  • Reflections on Iraqi Studies - Pursely

    • Driven by post-invasion
    • Shaping of modern iraqi scholars
    • Oversimplication
    • Destruction of 21st century iraq via imperialism
    • Can we define iraq from post-colonial notions?
    • How many states are built on necropolitics

    • Have iraqi scholars engaged in a purely defensive study?

      • Due to implications of the artificial iraqi state?
      • Due to implications of the artificial iraqi state?
    • Post colonial vs post conflict?
    • Lack of real archival research

    • Notions of "unmanagability" of the iraqi population

      • Needs to be understood as part of statebuilding
    • Modern iraq is defined by its particularities
    • is iraqi studies inherently nationalist?
    • Methodlogical nationalism in iraq vs india, iran, egypt
    • how can we move past the sectarian past

    • many studies consider iraq as bound to fail

      • artificial and natural binary?
      • co-constitution of the binary trapped behind an inherent artificial iraqi state?
    • paradox of articial nation state feeding into artificial sects
    • application of mdoern identities back in time

    • flexibility of imperial power via artificial state

      • artificial states arose as a reason for the mandates
      • artificial states assume sects are transtemporal and unchanging

    • some colonial narratives have disappeared

      • early british fears about bolshivekism no longer persists
    • tribalism vs nationalism in iraq?

  • Bashkin

    • The study of the geography of iraq
    • Provicial towns

    • Baghdad

      • Hospitals and schools are constructive of human geography
    • Nadia Ali and Azhara Ali
    • How do Iraqis talk about themselves?
    • Movement of palestinians into iraq?
    • Disaspora?
    • Critiques of secularism and how it fits in, before that becomes a trope?
    • What is the langauge of articulation for the talk?