Contested City by Alissa Walter - 9781503641426

Stanford University Press

Contested CityCitizen Advocacy and Survival in Modern Baghdad\nAuthor(s): Alissa Walter\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9781503641426, 978-1503641426\nSynopsis\nContested City offers a history of state-society relations in Baghdad, exploring how city residents managed through periods of economic growth, sanctions, and war, from the oil boom of the 1950s through the withdrawal of US troops in 2011. Interactions between citizens and their rulers shaped the social fabric and political realities of the city. Notably, low-ranking Ba'th party officials functioned as crucial intermediaries, deciding how regime policies would be applied. Charting the social, economic, and political transformations of Iraq's capital city, Alissa Walter examines how national policies translated into action at the local, everyday level.\n\n With this book, Walter reveals how authoritarian governance worked in practice. She fol.