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

我的目标是进行一个民族志和历史项目，研究伊拉克的民俗产业，作为维护20世纪80年代民族国家叙事的工具。作为一个切入点，我的目标是看看在伊拉克南部的边缘化的舞蹈形式，特别是分层沿着性别，阶级，种族和民族线。虽然有一个关于边缘化的舞蹈形式在伊拉克缺乏官方档案，YouTube拥有大量的“非官方”档案的剧院剧团和舞蹈聚会可以追溯到80年代，当有一个更重的投资，以保护伊拉克民俗舞蹈，地方和区域。尽管如此，这些舞蹈往往被边缘化的根源所净化。我的兴趣也在于这些视觉/档案形式的文件。我的目标是追踪各种身份和权力的动态分层这些不同形式的代表性，并期待在结构被复制或拆除。

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 official archives around marginalised dance forms in Iraq, YouTube holds a vast collection of "unofficial" archives of theatre troupes and dance gatherings dating back to the 80s when there was a heavier investment in preserving Iraqi folkloric dances, locally and regionally. Nevertheless, the dances were often sanitised of their marginalised roots.My interests also lie in these visual/archival forms of documentation. I aim to trace the various identity and power dynamics that stratify these different forms of representation and look at structures being reproduced or perhaps dismantled.