Familiar Futures: Time, Selfhood, And Sovereignty In Iraq (Stanford Studies In Middle Eastern And Islamic Societies And Cultures)

Introduction : Iraqi futures and the age of development -- Sovereignty, violence, and the dual mandate -- Determining a self -- The gendering of school time -- Generational time and the marriage crisis -- The family farm and the peculiar futurist perspective of development -- Revolutionary time and wasted time -- Law and the post-revolutionary self -- Epilogue : postcolonial heterotemporalities

• | Author: Sara Pursley
• | Publisher: Stanford University Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 15, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 320 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1503607488
• | ISBN-13: 9781503607484