Sirri, Omar (2021) Destructive creations: social-spatial transformations in contemporary Baghdad. LSE Middle East Centre paper series (45). LSE Middle East Centre, London, UK.
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Abstract
This working paper examines social-spatial transformations in contemporary Baghdad by zooming in on two of the city’s most frequented consumer districts, Karada and Mansour. By way of ethnographic fieldwork, I foreground the entanglements between violence, property and consumption. Baghdad’s transformations over nearly two decades are not simply a product of urban violence; nor are they only a result of the privatisation of formerly public property; nor are they merely a consequence of changes in everyday consumer patterns. Rather, the city’s transformations stem from the co-constitution of all three forces. In Baghdad, violence, property and consumption are inextricably linked. Their enmeshment has in turn spawned social-spatial transformations benefitting the political-economic interests of an elite few at the expense of the urban commons.
Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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Official URL: | http://www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-centre/publicatio... |
Additional Information: | © 2021 The Author |
Divisions: | Middle East Centre |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform J Political Science > JQ Political institutions Asia, Africa, Australia, Pacific H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology J Political Science > JZ International relations |
Date Deposited: | 18 Feb 2021 10:03 |
Last Modified: | 14 Sep 2024 04:13 |
URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/108866 |
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