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Identity is often regarded as something that is possessed by individuals, states, and other agents. In this edited collection, identity is explored across a range of approaches and under-explored case studies with a view to making visible its fractured, contingent, and dynamic features. The book brings together themes of belonging and exclusion, identity formation and fragmentation. It also examines how identity functions in discourse, and the effects it produces, both materially and in ideational terms. Taking in case studies from Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Latin America, the various chapters interrogate identity through formal governing mechanisms, popular culture and place. These studies demonstrate the complex and fluid nature of identity and identity practices, as well as implications for theorising identity.
Muharram is affected by the various frames of reference in relation to which it takes place, the efforts of individual organisers and the context of Danish society. The commemoration of Muharram 85 The purpose of this chapter is to examine how, through their participation in the religious activities, women construct and negotiate both abstract notions of community and concrete social relations with other Iraqi women in Copenhagen. In Chapter 2 I suggested that women engage in the Iraqi Shi‘a milieu partly because, within this social arena, they can construct a
US military forces. 56 The economic sanctions placed on Iraq at the end of the war have had particularly bad effects on Iraqi women. 57 In other contexts, economic globalisation and the restructuring policies of the international monetary institutions may be implicated in the creation of security crises. 58 The premise of both security traditionalists and progressives, that
opportunity to gain freedoms and to enjoy new status. 54 Women’s active participation in nationalist and revolutionary struggles has sometimes facilitated their subsequent assertion of political and social rights. 55 For example, the Iraqi Women’s Federation played an important role during the Iran–Iraq war in helping Iraqi women to exercise their roles in all walks of life and
which it is moralised in the public imagination, such as narratives that it will ‘liberate’ Afghan and Iraqi citizens, and the USA's co-option of feminist rhetoric about the oppression of Afghan and Iraqi women. 73 This philanthropic framing of warfare constitutes another pillar of the military-industrial complex, as privatised humanitarian projects abdicate the state of responsibility for recovery schemes both domestically and internationally. Invictus can be analysed through these concomitant
? 58 Decolonisation forced the WIDF to revise its politics of representation. Indian and other Asian women were sent to represent the WIDF at events in Africa. For example, a document from September 1963 shows that the WIDF Bureau decided to dispatch Naziha Dulami, a representative of Iraqi women, to the conference of African women that would take place in Liberia in 1964. 59 Likewise, the Soviets rethought their own representation
Figures sourced from: http://www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/issues/women/wom eninpk.shtml. 5 Jacqueline Siapno (2008) has reported that gender sensitivity within PNTL remains poor, particularly noting sexual harassment within PNTL and the existence of ‘glass ceilings’ for women within Timor-Leste’s security sector. References Al-Ali, N. and N. Pratt. 2009. “The United States, the Iraqi Women’s Diaspora and Women’s ‘Empowerment’ in Iraq.” In Women and War in the Middle East, edited by N. Al-Ali and N. Pratt, 65–98. New York: Zed Books. Alves, D. 2010. “Domingas Micato
that sought permission from the Algerian provisional government (GPRA) for Iraqi women to engage in the ranks of the ALN; see also Seferdjeli, ‘Fight With Us’, 184–6 on conferences in Vietnam, Albania, Conakry, Bamako and elsewhere. SHAT 1585/3*, SEDECE report, 31 May 1961. Rahal was secretary to the Bureau fédéral de l’Organisation Scouts Musulmane in Rabat. Meynier, Histoire intérieure, 231. See chapter 2 where the commander of the Operation Pilot had remarked as early as 24 February 1957, that ‘The central idea [of Servier] must be the freeing of the masses from
because the brain stem remained intact. Even small, relatively harmless-looking external bullet holes to the abdomen would reveal extensive internal damage to the bowel, bladder, stomach, liver, and spleen. It was a horrible, gruesome, and heart-wrenching sight. We received and treated all those who had become a casualty of this war: American fighting men, Iraqi soldiers, and the innocent Iraqi women and children who were at the wrong place at the wrong time. Their screams of excruciating pain filled the air, and the stench of destroyed flesh and death was revolting as