Publics, Politics and Participation

Davis 399 end of World War II. These included the artists who formed the Pioneers [al-Ruwwad], the Society for Modern Art (or Ba ...

400 Resisting Publics nationalist movement during the late nineteenth century, many coffee- houses began to supplement their mor ...

Davis 401 also, nationalist poets read their verses to the crowd. Because the govern- ment frequently sent informers to national ...

402 Resisting Publics was artistic innovation that expanded the boundaries of political discourse. One of the most important lit ...

Davis 403 to achieve the same revolutionary developments in the realm of paint- ing and sculpture that Iraqi poets had achieved ...

404 Resisting Publics of Ottoman army officers primarily from Iraq. Already prior to World War I, ‘al-Ahd developed hostility to ...

Davis 405 triangle,” they viewed access to state employment as their main source of economic well-being. To be forced to compete ...

406 Resisting Publics economic resources; why, then, are these groups the subject of attacks? Why are professionals viewed as su ...

Davis 407 as a whole of a sectarian model. Indeed, a BBC/ABC public opinion poll, conducted in April 2007, indicated that 94% of ...

408 Resisting Publics e way in which Iraqis have been able to circumvent physical vio-On lence is through the Internet. A dramat ...

Davis 409 al-siyāsa], such as those under the Hashimite monarchy between 1921 and 1958; or by corporatist forms of political org ...

410 Resisting Publics by radical groups in the name of Islam, whether Sunni or Shi‘i, point to the efforts not only to intimidat ...

Davis 411 hile the creation of a nascent civil society and public sphere in W the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries is rel ...

412 Resisting Publics nationalist movement. Iraqi newspapers, for example, have played an important role since 2003 through the ...

Davis 413 and a respect for social difference generally, could help to offset the mes- sage of sectarian groups who seek to use ...

414 Resisting Publics artists, entertainers and sports figures.^48 Many of these organizations pos- sess few resources. With sma ...

Davis 415 democratically minded Kurds and Arabs to join together to create truly autonomous organizations of civil society and a ...

416 Resisting Publics cross-ethnic cooperation but instill a sense of pride and self-confidence that is crucial to resisting eff ...

Davis 417 sphere in Iraq (and elsewhere) is synthetic, in the sense that it combines discourses drawn from politics, literature ...

418 Resisting Publics Notes 1.ürgen Habermas, J The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category o ...