Cultural (dis)continuity, political trajectories and the state in post – 2003 Iraq
Cultural (dis)continuity, political trajectories and the state in post – 2003 Iraq
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2003 年伊拉克后的文化（不）连续性、政治轨迹和国家
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2020
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Mehiyar Kathem
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Mehiyar Kathem
摘要 文化连续性和国家政治轨迹密切相关。国家机构发生了什么，它们如何通过外部和国内行为者的干预而转变，以多种方式影响着遗产及其连续性。本文通过文化连续性的棱镜来审视遗产与国家和权力场所的关系，这可以在变化、转型和冲突的情况下为遗产领域提供更细致的历史视角。它考察了伊拉克政治制度的影响，该制度基于伊拉克占领期间设置的政治配额，其中国家机构，包括遗产机构，被作为选举意外之财分配给相互竞争的政治团体。随之而来的体制混乱、中央集权统治的缺失以及权力结构重叠的多重性，对伊拉克遗产的状况产生了不利影响。面对自 2003 年以来对该行业造成的灾难性损害，国际遗产干预措施也基本无效。我认为，国家机构的分散以及国际遗产基础设施的薄弱（主要关注其自身的优先事项）使伊拉克的遗产处于永久的危机状态，而这种危机尚未得到任何有意义的方式解决。
ABSTRACT Cultural continuity and the political trajectories of states are intimately intertwined. What happens to state institutions, how they are transformed through the interventions of external and domestic actors, affects heritage and its continuity in myriad ways. This paper looks at heritage in relation to the state and sites of power through the prism of cultural continuity, which can offer a more nuanced and historical perspective of the field of heritage in situations of change, transformation and conflict. It examines the repercussions of Iraq’s political system based on political quotas installed under the occupation of Iraq, where state institutions, including those of heritage, are allocated as electoral windfalls to competing political groups. The ensuing institutional disorder, absence of centralised rule and multiplicity of overlapping power structures in the country have detrimentally affected the conditions of Iraq’s heritage. International heritage interventions too have been largely ineffective in the face of the catastrophic damage inflicted on the sector since 2003. I argue that the fragmentation of state institutions and on the other hand a weak international heritage infrastructure, concerned mainly with its own priorities, has left Iraq’s heritage in a perpetual state of crisis that has not been addressed in any meaningful way.