Sajjad Rizvi سجاد رضوي Profile picture
@exeterIAIS intellectual historian | Persianate and Shii Islam | mysticism | decoloniality | philosophy in contemporary Islam | Global philosophy

Sep 11, 2019, 5 tweets

Workshop at #LSE @LSEMiddleEast on #SectarianPoliticsinLongueDuree and lovely to see #SamiZubaida as ever #SEPAD

@bassel67 important point that sectarianism is not just matter of ideological but also the imaginary, the material, clientelist and institutionalist. Elements of official political economy (govt budget) and unofficial (corruption) underpins @LSEMiddleEast

@ProfTobyDodge point of sectarian quota system in #Iraq using a #Bourdieu structuralist approach - symbolic violence, political economy (way in which #wikala system work for senior civil servants), coercive capital.

And @ProfTobyDodge genealogy of #muhassasa points to October 1992 establishment of #INC in #Salahaddin

@ProfTobyDodge #consociationalism leads to weak states and corruption

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