T<scp>ribalism in</scp> I<scp>raq, the</scp> O<scp>ld and the</scp> N<scp>ew</scp>

Yaphe, Judith S.

doi:10.1111/j.1475-4967.2000.tb00162.x

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“…51-58;and Nakash, 2003, among others. farmers, and for southern Shi'a, who resentfully viewed urbanized Iraqis as, in one characterization, an effendi class who had adopted suspect Western attitudes. 50 Yaphe, 2000;Khadim, 2012;Nakash, 1994;Visser, 2008a; and most other historians cited in this chapter provide significant evidence that tribal and regional identities strongly influenced individual decisionmaking and group behavior during the 1920 revolution and at various times through 1968. 51 While it would not be possible to make an empirical argument that tribalism or regionalism trumped sect in any one place or time, empirical evidence that sectarian identity trumped tribal or regional identity in individual decisionmaking is equally absent.…”

Section: Understanding Of Iraqi Identity From 1920 To 1968mentioning

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Sectarianism in the Middle East: Implications for the United States

Robinson¹,

Connable²,

Thaler³

et al. 2018

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Section: Understanding Of Iraqi Identity From 1920 To 1968mentioning

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Sectarianism in the Middle East: Implications for the United States

Robinson¹,

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Thaler³

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“…is defining characteristic is named "Tribalism, " and it is most prominent in disasters, conflict situations, and pandemics, as what has happened in the era of COVID-19. [8,[10][11][12] In this paper, we describe the social challenges that vascular neurosurgeons encounter in LMICs, with Iraq as an example. neurosurgical specialty, neurosurgeons have increased jeopardy of receiving patients' complaints compared to other physicians and surgeons.…”

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“…This defining characteristic is named “Tribalism,” and it is most prominent in disasters, conflict situations, and pandemics, as what has happened in the era of COVID-19. [ 8 , 10 - 12 ] In this paper, we describe the social challenges that vascular neurosurgeons encounter in LMICs, with Iraq as an example.…”

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Societal challenges facing neurosurgeons in low- and middle-income countries: Iraq as an example

Ismail

Ayad

Al-Ageely

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Surgical Neurology International

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“…Tribalism occupies a central place in the history of Eurocentric social theory and can be considered as one of the most invoked concepts by social scientists working on Middle Eastern areas such as Kurdistan (Leach , Barth ; Tapper ; McDowall , 1992; van Bruinessen ; Yaphe ; van Bruinessen ; Kennedy ; Ross and Mohammadpur ; Tugdar and Al ). It is occasionally used to explain the failure of statehood (van Bruinessen ; Bozarslan ; Tahiri ; Stansfield ), as the apparatus of state manipulation (Cleveland and Bunton ; Mansfield ; Stancati ; Carroll ; Erkmen ; Radcliffe and Westwood 1996; Dunkerley ; Centeno ; Saylor ; Salzman ; Rowland ; Dukhan ; Ortega ; Carroll ), or as impediment to state‐building in the contemporary Middle East (Rowland ; Dukhan ; Ortega ; Anca ; Jabar ; Carroll ; King ).…”

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Interrogating the tribal: the aporia of ‘tribalism’ in the sociological study of the Middle East

Munawar

Soleimani

2019

British Journal of Sociology

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In this paper, we intend to deconstruct the term ‘tribalism’ as a colonial category, which figures as a prominent concept in social studies on Kurds as well as the Middle East at large. Blithely used, tribalism has occupied a central place, especially in the existing scholarship on Kurdistan. Some earlier anthropological works have gone so far as to regard tribalism as the ‘DNA’ of Middle Eastern people. Drawing on recent studies on Latin America, Africa and Central Asia, we argue that the use of tribalism as if it is the natural constitution of Kurdish society has caused a significant misrepresentation and oversimplification of socio‐political life in Kurdistan as well as the broader Middle East. In a way, the existing body of scholarship on this region has reproduced statist‐nationalist discourses at the expense of dominated communities (e.g., Kurds). The historical context of both colonial powers and nation‐states ‘combating tribes and tribalism’ coincided with the emergence of the discourse of racial biopolitics. Thus, the use of the term tribalism to define certain nations or ethnic groups should not be viewed as merely an application of socio‐anthropological categories. Hence, we argue that the ethical aspects and implications of the use of tribalism by both colonial powers and later by nation‐states to define certain ethnic groups must not be overlooked.

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Tribalism in Iraq, the Old and the New

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Sectarianism in the Middle East: Implications for the United States

Sectarianism in the Middle East: Implications for the United States

Societal challenges facing neurosurgeons in low- and middle-income countries: Iraq as an example

Interrogating the tribal: the aporia of ‘tribalism’ in the sociological study of the Middle East

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