Dismantling Baathist Iraq : foreign occupation and cultural destruction Isakhan, Benjamin 2012, Dismantling Baathist Iraq : foreign occupation and cultural destruction, in Proceedings of the Historical Justice and Memory Conference, [The Conference], Melbourne, Vic. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Dismantling Baathist Iraq : foreign occupation and cultural destruction Author(s) Isakhan, Benjamin orcid.org/0000-0002-5153-7110 Conference name Historical Justice and Memory. Conference (2012 : Melbourne, Vic.) Conference location Melbourne, Vic. Conference dates 14-17 Feb. 2012 Title of proceedings Proceedings of the Historical Justice and Memory Conference Editor(s) Neumann, Klaus Publication date 2012 Conference series Historical Justice and Memory Conference Publisher [The Conference] Place of publication Melbourne, Vic Keyword(s) Iraq Heritage Destruction Summary This paper examines the systematic efforts to dismantle or destroy the symbolic dimension of the Baathist regime in Iraq since 2003. It argues that while the Baath were undeniably cruel and oppressive, they did undertake one of the twentieth century’s most robust attempts to utilise the political power of historical memory to create a unified Iraqi national identity. However, while many have examined the militaristic or bureaucratic dimensions of de-Baathification, no such attempts have been made to examine the destruction of the symbols and monuments of the Baathist state and the consequences it has had for Iraqi national identity. This paper addresses this paucity and concludes that with the symbolic destruction of the Baathist state has come a near complete erosion of the Iraqi brand of nationalism that the Baath had managed to promulgate to varying degrees of success since the late 1960s. Language eng Field of Research 210202 Heritage and Cultural Conservation 160699 Political Science not elsewhere classified Socio Economic Objective 940203 Political Systems HERDC Research category E2 Full written paper - non-refereed / Abstract reviewed Grant ID DE120100315 Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30047256 Document type: Conference Paper Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation   Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Mon, 20 Aug 2012, 17:13:17 EST Tue, 28 Aug 2012, 14:33:59 EST Tue, 28 Aug 2012, 14:36:09 EST Wed, 29 Aug 2012, 16:26:40 EST Wed, 29 Aug 2012, 16:27:54 EST Tue, 30 Apr 2013, 12:01:56 EST Wed, 01 May 2013, 11:38:09 EST Wed, 19 Mar 2014, 11:47:46 EST Wed, 19 Mar 2014, 11:49:10 EST Thu, 31 Jul 2014, 12:39:41 EST Thu, 31 Jul 2014, 15:27:03 EST Thu, 31 Jul 2014, 18:49:52 EST Fri, 01 Aug 2014, 08:16:56 EST Wed, 17 Sep 2014, 20:16:07 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 296 Abstract Views, 6 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 20 Aug 2012, 17:12:17 EST by Benjamin Isakhan