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Migrant sarifa settlements and state-Building in Iraq
Thesis: Ph. D. in History and Theory of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, September, 2020 ; Cataloged from the official pdf of thesis. ; Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-331). ; This dissertation examines the negative dialectical relationship between state-building and sarifa (reed) and kukh (mud) dwellings built by rural migrants in Baghdad. Rural migrants served as the paradigmatic developmental subjects of the Iraqi state, providing a supply of devalued labor for the army, civil service, construction industry, domestic services, manufacturing, police, and transportation. In contrast with how Baghdad's history has been portrayed, sarifa and kukh dwellings were arguably the most salient architectural feature of the mid-20th century capital. These dwellings are thus, examined beyond discourses of underdevelopment or the vernacular in order to show how the Iraqi governmental apparatus was shaped and reshaped through encounters with migrant subjects and their settlements between 1920 and 1970. Rural migrants in the capital were central to communist agitation, protest movements, demands for land and housing, and the 1958 anti-monarchic revolution that transformed the modern state of Iraq. By examining how governmental apparatuses were designed to manage land dispossession under the benevolent guise of urban development, this dissertation narrates how the birthing of state territory is a violent and iterative process. Birthing here is used in the gerund form to indicate that this process is never fully realized. It exists in a state of becoming, between dwelling and building. This dissertation recuperates the figure of the sarifa-dweller as a central subject in Iraq's historiography. And it employs rare archival film footage, photographs, architectural drawings, diplomatic records, government reports, interviews and surveys in order to reconstruct the history of these ephemeral places through the very documentation strategies, which accompanied modes of ...
Migrant sarifa settlements and state-Building in Iraq
Thesis: Ph. D. in History and Theory of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, September, 2020 ; Cataloged from the official pdf of thesis. ; Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-331). ; This dissertation examines the negative dialectical relationship between state-building and sarifa (reed) and kukh (mud) dwellings built by rural migrants in Baghdad. Rural migrants served as the paradigmatic developmental subjects of the Iraqi state, providing a supply of devalued labor for the army, civil service, construction industry, domestic services, manufacturing, police, and transportation. In contrast with how Baghdad's history has been portrayed, sarifa and kukh dwellings were arguably the most salient architectural feature of the mid-20th century capital. These dwellings are thus, examined beyond discourses of underdevelopment or the vernacular in order to show how the Iraqi governmental apparatus was shaped and reshaped through encounters with migrant subjects and their settlements between 1920 and 1970. Rural migrants in the capital were central to communist agitation, protest movements, demands for land and housing, and the 1958 anti-monarchic revolution that transformed the modern state of Iraq. By examining how governmental apparatuses were designed to manage land dispossession under the benevolent guise of urban development, this dissertation narrates how the birthing of state territory is a violent and iterative process. Birthing here is used in the gerund form to indicate that this process is never fully realized. It exists in a state of becoming, between dwelling and building. This dissertation recuperates the figure of the sarifa-dweller as a central subject in Iraq's historiography. And it employs rare archival film footage, photographs, architectural drawings, diplomatic records, government reports, interviews and surveys in order to reconstruct the history of these ephemeral places through the very documentation strategies, which accompanied modes of ...
Migrant sarifa settlements and state-Building in Iraq
2020-01-01
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Electronic Resource
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