Not beating them, and not joining them: Political symbols and practices in Basra

Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 282-297

  Al Mohammad, Hayder ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

basra; iraq; political symbols

Indexed keywords

EID: 81155131336     PISSN: 18739857     EISSN: 18739865     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/187398611X590174     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Aziz, Barbara Nimri (2007). Swimming up the Tigris: Real Life Encounters with Iraq. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida.
2. Barakat, Sultan (2005). Post-Saddam Iraq: Deconstructing a Regime, Reconstructing a Nation. Third World Quarterly 26(4/5): 571-591.
3. Bensahel, Nora (2008). After Saddam: Prewar Planning and the Occupation of Iraq. Santa Monica, CA: Rand Arroyo Center.
4. Butler, Judith (1993). Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of 'Sex'. New York: Routledge.
5. Cardosa, Amy V. (2007). Iraq at the Crossroads. New York: Nova Science Publishers.
6. Certeau, Michel de (1984). The Practice of Everyday Life. Berkeley: University of California Press.
7. Chouliaraki, Lilie (2007). The Soft Power of War. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing.
8. Cordesman, Anthony H. and Emma R. Davies (2008). Iraq's Insurgency and the Road to Civil Conflict. Westport: Praeger Security International.
9. Cordesman, Anthony H. and Adam Mausner (2009). Withdrawal from Iraq: Assessing the Readiness of Iraqi Security Forces. Washington, DC : Center for Strategic and International Studies.
10. Czepczyski, Mariusz (2008). Cultural Landscapes of Post-socialist Cities: Representation of Powers and Needs. Aldershot: Ashgate.
11. Derrida, Jacques (1988). Limited Inc. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press.
12. Ehrenberg, John (2010). The Iraq Papers. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
13. Evans, Joseph Claude (1991). Strategies of Deconstruction: Derrida and the Myth of the Voice Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
14. Faris, Amer (2009). Red Flags: Memoir of an Iraqi Conscript Trapped between Enemy Lines in the 2003 Invasion of Iraq Jefferson: McFarland & Co.
15. Farouk-Sluglett, Marion and Peter Sluglett (1990). Iraq Since 1986: The Strengthening of Saddam. Middle East Report (167): 19-24.
16. Fassihi, Farnaz (2008). Waiting for an Ordinary Day: The Unraveling of Life in Iraq. New York: Public Affairs.
17. Fattah, Hala Mundhir and Frank Caso (2009). A Brief History of Iraq. New York: Facts on File.
18. Finlan, Alastair (2009). The Gulf War of 1991. New York: Rosen Publishing.
19. Fontan, Victoria (2009). Voices from Post-Saddam Iraq: Living with Terrorism, Insurgency, and New Forms of Tyranny. Westport, CT: Praeger Security International.
20. Geertz, Clifford (1973). The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays. New York: Basic Books.
21. Hurst, Steven (2009). The United States and Iraq since 1979: Hegemony, Oil, and War. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
22. Jagodzinski, Jan (1997). Pun(k) Deconstruction: Experifigural Writings in Art & Art Education. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
23. Katzman, Kenneth (2009). Iraq: Post-Saddam Governance and Security. New York: Nova Science Publishers.
24. Laden, Anthony Simon (2001). Reasonably Radical: Deliberative Liberalism and the Politics of Identity. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
25. Makiya, Kanan (1989). Republic of Fear: The Inside Story of Saddam's Iraq. New York: Pantheon Books.
26. Al-Mohammad, Hayder (2007). Ordure and Disorder: The Case of Basra and the Anthropology of Excrement. Anthropology of the Middle East 2(2): 1-23.
27. -. (2010). Relying on One's Tribe: A Snippet of Life in Basra Since the 2003 Invasion. Anthropology Today 26(6): 23-26.
28. Pagano, Michael A. and Ann O'M Bowman (1995). Cityscapes and Capital: The Politics of Urban Development. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
29. Pellet, Peter (2000). Sanctions: Killing a Country and a People. In Anthony Arnove and Ali Abunimah (eds.) Iraq Under Siege: The Deadly Impact of Sanctions and War, pp. 151-168. Cambridge, MA: South End Press.
30. Pines, Christopher L. (1993). Ideology and False Consciousness: Marx and his Historical Progenitors Albany : State University of New York Press.
31. Rejai, Mostafa (1995). Political Ideologies: A Comparative Approach. Armonk: M.E. Sharpe.
32. Robben, Antonius C. G. M. (2009). Iraq at a Distance: What Anthropologists can Teach Us about the War, The Ethnography of Political Violence. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
33. Taussig, Michael (1984). Culture of Terror-Space of Death. Roger Casement's Putumayo Report and the Explanation of Torture. Comparative Studies in Society and History 26(3): 467-497.
34. Tripp, Charles (2007). A History of Iraq. 3rd ed. Cambridge, UK and New York : Cambridge University Press.
35. Volosinov, Valentin N. (1973). Marxism and the Philosophy of Language. Translated by L. Matejka and I. R. Titunik. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press.
36. Zangana, Haifa (2010). Walling in Iraq: The Impact on Baghdadi Women. International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies 4(1&2): 41-58.
37. Zizek, Slavoj (2001). On Belief, T inking in Action. London: Routledge.
38. -(2007). The Universal Exception: Selected Writings. London: Continuum.