Marginalised Southern Iraqi Dances: Politics & Production in the 1980s

I aim to conduct an ethnographic and historical project examining the folkloric industry in Iraq as a tool for upholding nation-state narratives in the 1980s. As an entry point, I aim to look at marginalised dance forms in southern Iraq which are especially stratified along gendered, classed, racial and ethnic lines.
Although there is a lack of…