03795nam 22007333 450 991111727640332120241129080259.09781503641433150364143010.1515/9781503641433(CKB)36679650400041(MiAaPQ)EBC31805341(Au-PeEL)EBL31805341(OCoLC)1474240561(DE-B1597)698233(DE-B1597)9781503641433(Perlego)4656182(OCoLC)1472195277(EXLCZ)993667965040004120241129d2025 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierContested City Citizen Advocacy and Survival in Modern Baghdad1st ed.Redwood City :Stanford University Press,2025.©2025.1 online resource (332 pages)9781503641426 1503641422 9781503640580 1503640582 Slums and subdivisions -- Baghdad becomes a warzone -- The weaponization of food rations -- The politics of petitions -- Prostitution and policing -- Patchwork power and essential services."Contested City offers a history of state-society relations in Baghdad, exploring how city residents managed through periods of economic growth, sanctions, and war, from the oil boom of the 1950s through the withdrawal of US troops in 2011. Interactions between citizens and their rulers shaped the social fabric and political realities of the city. Notably, low-ranking Ba'th party officials functioned as crucial intermediaries, deciding how regime policies would be applied. Charting the social, economic, and political transformations of Iraq's capital city, Alissa Walter examines how national policies translated into action at the local, everyday level. With this book, Walter reveals how authoritarian governance worked in practice. She follows shifts in mid-century housing and urban development, the impact of the Iran-Iraq and Gulf wars on city life, and the manipulation of food rations and growth of black markets. Reading citizen petitions to the government, Walter illuminates citizens' self-advocacy and the important role of low-ranking party officials and state bureaucrats embedded within neighborhoods. The US occupation and ensuing sectarian fighting upended Baghdad's neighborhoods through violent displacement and the collapse of basic state services. This power vacuum paved the way for new power brokers, including militias and neighborhood councils, to compete for influence on the local level"--Provided by publisher.HISTORY / Middle East / IraqbisacshBaghdad (Iraq)Politics and government20th centuryBaghdad (Iraq)Politics and government21st centuryBaghdad (Iraq)Social conditions20th centuryBaghdad (Iraq)Social conditions21st centuryIraqPolitics and government1958-IraqHistory1958-Baghdad.Ba‘th Party.Gulf War (1990-91).Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988).Saddam Hussein.US-Iraq War (2003-2011).neighborhood.petitions.sanctions.state-society relations.women and gender.HISTORY / Middle East / Iraq.956.7/47Walter Alissa2009566MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9911117276403321Contested City4797101UNINA