Sara Pursley <br/><br/>
Familiar Futures:  Time, Selfhood, and Sovereignty in Iraq 

 - xii, 304 p;,  ill.;  24 cm 
 - Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures .
 - Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780804793179 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Economic development projects--Social aspects--Iraq<br/>Economic development--History--Iraq--20th century<br/>Colonisation--Iraq--20th century
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Iraq--History--Hashemite Kingdom (1921-1958)<br/>Iraq--Social conditions--20th century<br/>Iraq--Economic policy<br/>Iraq--Social policy