The Politics of Culture From ‘What it is’ to ‘What it does’
-
Upload
charla-crawford -
Category
Documents
-
view
218 -
download
0
Transcript of The Politics of Culture From ‘What it is’ to ‘What it does’
![Page 1: The Politics of Culture From ‘What it is’ to ‘What it does’](https://reader030.fdocuments.in/reader030/viewer/2022032703/56649d025503460f949d56dd/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
The Politics of CultureFrom ‘What it is’ to ‘What it does’
![Page 2: The Politics of Culture From ‘What it is’ to ‘What it does’](https://reader030.fdocuments.in/reader030/viewer/2022032703/56649d025503460f949d56dd/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
Cultural Wholes versus the Cultural Arena
Cultural arena can be broken down into two perspectives – structure and agency.
Culture as a system of symbols and meanings
• Symbols
Culture as practice• Tool Kit
The goal is HEGEMONY
![Page 3: The Politics of Culture From ‘What it is’ to ‘What it does’](https://reader030.fdocuments.in/reader030/viewer/2022032703/56649d025503460f949d56dd/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Flag of 1958 Revolution
Iraqi Flag 1959 – 1963 under Qasim
![Page 4: The Politics of Culture From ‘What it is’ to ‘What it does’](https://reader030.fdocuments.in/reader030/viewer/2022032703/56649d025503460f949d56dd/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
Nisb el-Hurriya (Freedom Monument)
![Page 5: The Politics of Culture From ‘What it is’ to ‘What it does’](https://reader030.fdocuments.in/reader030/viewer/2022032703/56649d025503460f949d56dd/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Iraqi Flag under Ba’ath Rule1968 – 1991
Iraqi Flag under Ba’ath Rule1991 - 2003
![Page 6: The Politics of Culture From ‘What it is’ to ‘What it does’](https://reader030.fdocuments.in/reader030/viewer/2022032703/56649d025503460f949d56dd/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
Project for the Rewriting of History under Ba’th Party
Goes beyond simple political indoctrination
Sought to negate Iraqist nationalism’s inclusive legacy and build a “new Iraqi man and Society”
• Reject or ignore existing power relations (tribalism, sectarianism, social class)
• Get rid of Iraqist nationalist legacy from historical record• Strictly limit religion to the private sphere• Develop new Iraq-centered concept of Pan-Arabism
Ideological Contradiction • Could not adopt exclusive Pan-Arabism (alienation of Kurds, Shi’is,
communists)• Could not embrace Iraqist nationalism (negated Pan-Arabism)
![Page 7: The Politics of Culture From ‘What it is’ to ‘What it does’](https://reader030.fdocuments.in/reader030/viewer/2022032703/56649d025503460f949d56dd/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
Shu’ubiya Controversy and the Iran-Iraq War
Shu’ubiya Controversy and the Iran-Iraq War
Arabized Persian Shi’a (core of ‘Abbasid bureaucracy, worked to undermine empire from within and caused its downfall)
Message to Sunni minority – Shi’a are untrustworthyMessage to Shi’a – enjoying benefits of the state required
renunciation of cultural heritage
![Page 8: The Politics of Culture From ‘What it is’ to ‘What it does’](https://reader030.fdocuments.in/reader030/viewer/2022032703/56649d025503460f949d56dd/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
Monument of the Unknown Unknown Soldier
![Page 9: The Politics of Culture From ‘What it is’ to ‘What it does’](https://reader030.fdocuments.in/reader030/viewer/2022032703/56649d025503460f949d56dd/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
Hands of Victory (Swords of Qadisiyah)
![Page 10: The Politics of Culture From ‘What it is’ to ‘What it does’](https://reader030.fdocuments.in/reader030/viewer/2022032703/56649d025503460f949d56dd/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
Shatt al-Arab Martyr’s Monument
![Page 11: The Politics of Culture From ‘What it is’ to ‘What it does’](https://reader030.fdocuments.in/reader030/viewer/2022032703/56649d025503460f949d56dd/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
A sculpture of the footwear hurled at President Bush in December 2008 unveiled in a ceremony at the Tikrit Orphanage complex.
It was ordered to be taken down and destroyed (which it was) only a month later.
![Page 12: The Politics of Culture From ‘What it is’ to ‘What it does’](https://reader030.fdocuments.in/reader030/viewer/2022032703/56649d025503460f949d56dd/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
The Theatre of Ali al-Kassar (from reading)
![Page 13: The Politics of Culture From ‘What it is’ to ‘What it does’](https://reader030.fdocuments.in/reader030/viewer/2022032703/56649d025503460f949d56dd/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
![Page 14: The Politics of Culture From ‘What it is’ to ‘What it does’](https://reader030.fdocuments.in/reader030/viewer/2022032703/56649d025503460f949d56dd/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
Cartoon of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak (2010) after a mounting political challenge by advocates of Mohamed el-Baradei