Sara Pursley

Familiar Futures

Time, Selfhood, and Sovereignty in Iraq

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Sara Pursley is Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University.

Produktdetails

• Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 160mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 636g
• ISBN-13: 9780804793179
• ISBN-10: 0804793174
• Artikelnr.: 50906350

Autorenporträt

Sara Pursley is Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University.

Inhaltsangabe

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