Joseph Sassoon
Biographic Data
| ID | 897628 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph Sassoon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph |
| FAMILY NAME | Sassoon |
| SIGNATURE | SASSOON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9587-9825 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The White-man calls me Jack’: The many names and claims for Jackey Jackey of the lower Logan River, south-east Queensland, Australia
Genealogies that demonstrate a continuous historical lineage play a critical role for native title evidence as well as contemporary negotiations concerning Indigenous identity. The complexities of this genealogical research are compounded in regions with lengthy histories of disruption from traditional lands and contestation concerning the forebears of Indigenous individuals, families and wider groups. This article presents a case study that intr…
The North Iraq Dataset (Nids) files: Northern Iraq under Baʿthist rule, 1968–911
The first archival collection from Saddam Hussein’s regime to receive the attention of researchers in the early 1990s was the large number of documents secured by Iraqi Kurdish rebels in the March 1991 uprising. The documents have been referred to variously as the Iraqi secret police files, the Anfal files, the North Iraq records, and are today known as the North Iraq Dataset (NIDS). In addition to being the first of several collections of Baʿth-…
Capturing Nature: Early Scientific Photography at the Australian Museum 1857–1893
Capturing Nature: Early Scientific Photography at the Australian Museum 1857–1893." Australian Historical Studies, 50(3), pp. 400–401
State of repression: Iraq under Saddam Hussein, by Lisa Blaydes
Lisa Blaydes’ book is an important addition to the array of books that have been published since the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime in 2003 given the ability by academics to access the archives co
Party and governance in the Arab republics
By focusing on political memoirs as an important source, the article deals with the ruling party and governance in the Arab republics, whether they had a one-party system such as Iraq and Syria, or a multi-party system such as Egypt and Tunisia. However, one country among the republics, Libya, annulled political parties and parliament and created its own unique system of governance. Through memoirs of party members, parliamentary opponents, and m…
The Iraqi Occupation of Kuwait: New Historical Perspectives
The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait was a critical juncture in both countries' histories. With unprecedented access to internal Iraqi documents about the invasion of Kuwait, this article underscores how the Iraqi leadership perceived Kuwait, assesses the Iraqi regime's objectives in Kuwait, and analyzes Kuwaiti resistance to the Iraqi occupation. The article ultimately aims to show that Iraq's policies of violence and dispossession in Kuwait were simila…
Anatomy of Authoritarianism in the Arab Republics
By examining the system of authoritarianism in eight Arab republics, Joseph Sassoon portrays life under these regimes and explores the mechanisms underpinning their resilience. How did the leadership in these countries create such enduring systems? What was the economic system that prolonged the regimes' longevity, but simultaneously led to their collapse? Why did these seemingly stable regimes begin to falter? This book seeks to answer these que…
Modern middle east authoritarianism: Roots, Ramifications, and Crisis
As the Arab revolts in Egypt, Syria, and Libya face serious hurdles, and pessimism about the state of affairs in the region (with some optimism about Tunisia) is rising, this new edited volume come
The East German Ministry for State Security and Iraq, 1968–1989
Despite the close relationship between the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and Iraq from the late 1960s until the mid-1970s, new evidence from documents of the former East German Ministry for State Security (Stasi) and the Iraqi Ba'th Party archives, combined with interviews of senior East German diplomats who served in the Arab world, indicates that the Stasi changed its policy in the second half of the 1970s and persisted with that policy in t…
State Security, Information, and Repression: A Comparison of Communist Bulgaria and Ba'thist Iraq
The centrality of a strong state security apparatus to the maintenance of authoritarian rule via the threat or use of repression has been highlighted in classic studies of single-party regimes as well as in more recent analyses of authoritarian resilience in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. This article focuses on two other fundamental questions related to the operation of state security forces in single-party autocracies during the Cold War. …
The Iraqi Ba‘th Party Preparatory School and the ‘Cultural’ Courses of the Branches
Political indoctrination of the Ba’th party cadre in Iraq was critical for the durability of the regime for 35 years. The party preparatory school was the vehicle for the ideological training of the party elite, while special courses, provided by the party branches, focused on the ‘cultural’ education of the party's lower echelons to prepare them for becoming active members. Using the Ba’th's own archives, the article examines how the party's sch…
Introduction: Archives, Memory and Place from the Canberra Perspective
This is an introductory piece to a special section based on a 2013 cross-disciplinary conference on the lived experience of Canberra
My country's heart is in the market place: Tom Stannage interviewed by Peter Read
Tom Stannage was one among many historians in the 1970s uncovering histories of Australia which were to challenge national narratives and community memories. In 1971, Tom returned to Western Australia after writing his PhD in Cambridge with the passion to write urban history and an understanding that in order to do so, he needed an emotional engagement with place. What he had yet to realize was the power of community memories in Western Australia…
Johan FRANZEN. Red Star over Iraq: Iraqi Communism before Saddam
Journal Article Johan Franzén. Red Star over Iraq: Iraqi Communism before Saddam. Get access Johan Franzén. Red Star over Iraq: Iraqi Communism before Saddam.New York: Columbia University Press. 2011. Pp. xix, 276. Cloth $60.00, e-book $47.99. Joseph Sassoon Joseph Sassoon Georgetown University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 117, Issue 5, Decembe…
Saddam Hussein's Ba'th Party: Inside an Authoritarian Regime
The Ba'th Party came to power in 1968 and remained for thirty-five years, until the 2003 US invasion. Under the leadership of Saddam Hussein, who became president of Iraq in 1979, a powerful authoritarian regime was created based on a system of violence and an extraordinary surveillance network, as well as reward schemes and incentives for supporters of the party. The true horrors of this regime have been exposed for the first time through a mass…
Becoming anthropological: A cultural biography of EL Mitchell’s photographs of Aboriginal people
Minority reports: Indigenous and community voices in archives. Papers from the 4th International Conference on the History of Records and Archives (Ichora4), Perth, Western Australia, August 2008
The Iraqi Refugees: The New Crisis in the Middle East
Since 2003, over 4 million Iraqis have been forced to flee their homes, in what amounts to one of the largest people movements in modern times, far exceeding the Palestinian outflow after 1948. Despite media reports of an improved security situation in Iraq, the majority of refugees are still afraid to return. The social, economic, political and security consequences of such an event are huge. In this rigorous and timely book, Joseph Sassoon expl…
Beyond chip monks and paper tigers: Towards a new culture of archival format specialists
The Courage of their Convictions: Creating Cultural Landscapes in 1930s Western Australia
Building a cultural landscape involves deep political and social processes. Discussions relating to decisions about preservation reveal cultural values at a particular moment and explain the character of the surviving landscape. This study analyses how one community in Western Australia defined its sense of place and identity. In the 1930s, on a wave of historical consciousness, Western Australians sought to enshrine the desire to preserve a rang…
Archives: Recordkeeping in Society edited by Sue McKemmish, Michael Piggott, Barbara Reed and Frank Upward
riting about memory is a popular topic for historians.Public History Review volume 10 had the title Remembering and Forgetting.Historians now recognise museums as memory institutions, with an analytical focus on the exhibition as a representation of contemporary ideas.In order, however, to penetrate the exhibition, the historical processes of collecting, preserving and documenting need to be understood.This kind of archaeology of exhibitions requ…
Other histories
This is an interesting and important book. In one sense, its' authors deal with familiar lines of enquiry surrounding the cultural contexts of the production and consumption of photography. However, the importance of this book is in the choice of sites where these discussions are played out. Rather than focusing entirely on the Western colonial context and the proscribed nature of the ideological approaches of Edward Said and Michel Foucault, the…
The Politics of Pictures: A Cultural History of the Western Australian Government Print Photograph Collection
Archivally nuanced studies reveal that as whole objects, and for each of their constituent parts, photographic archives are the products of specific cultural and social relations. The archival approach used in this analysis of the Western Australian Government Print Collection relies on understanding the interactive relationships between the changing political and administrative contexts of the production of the photographs with their content and…
The Common Cormorant or Shag Lays Eggs Inside a Paper Bag'. A Cultural Ecology of Fish-eating Birds in Western Australia
This paper builds a history of the rise of ecological awareness of the Swan River in Perth, Western Australia through the cultural perceptions of fish-eating birds. A history of understandings of the specific habitat ecology is traced through the rise of scientific knowledge about fish-eating birds as competitors with fishermen. The impact of this changing awareness on the river ecology is discussed as well as how this scientific knowledge became…
Photography and anthropology
Raw Histories is an important contribution to debates about the origins of photographic meanings, ideas about photographic objects, and the roles of individuals and institutions in shaping knowledge through collecting and exhibition practices. Raw Histories has a complex set of foundations and genealogies from which it develops its stmcture and arguments. It builds on Clifford Geertz's idea of a ‘thick’ description of photographs — that is, using…
The Iraqi Refugees: The New Crisis in the Middle East
Since 2003, over 4 million Iraqis have been forced to flee their homes, in what amounts to one of the largest people movements in modern times, far exceeding the Palestinian outflow after 1948. Despite media reports of an improved security situation in Iraq, the majority of refugees are still afraid to return. The social, economic, political and security consequences of such an event are huge. In this rigorous and timely book, Joseph Sassoon expl…
State Security, Information, and Repression: A Comparison of Communist Bulgaria and Ba'thist Iraq
The centrality of a strong state security apparatus to the maintenance of authoritarian rule via the threat or use of repression has been highlighted in classic studies of single-party regimes as well as in more recent analyses of authoritarian resilience in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. This article focuses on two other fundamental questions related to the operation of state security forces in single-party autocracies during the Cold War. …
Ideology, symbolic action and rituality in social movements: The Effects on Organizational Forms
Minority reports: Indigenous and community voices in archives. Papers from the 4th International Conference on the History of Records and Archives (Ichora4), Perth, Western Australia, August 2008
The Iraqi Occupation of Kuwait: New Historical Perspectives
The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait was a critical juncture in both countries' histories. With unprecedented access to internal Iraqi documents about the invasion of Kuwait, this article underscores how the Iraqi leadership perceived Kuwait, assesses the Iraqi regime's objectives in Kuwait, and analyzes Kuwaiti resistance to the Iraqi occupation. The article ultimately aims to show that Iraq's policies of violence and dispossession in Kuwait were simila…
Modern middle east authoritarianism: Roots, Ramifications, and Crisis
As the Arab revolts in Egypt, Syria, and Libya face serious hurdles, and pessimism about the state of affairs in the region (with some optimism about Tunisia) is rising, this new edited volume come
The East German Ministry for State Security and Iraq, 1968–1989
Despite the close relationship between the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and Iraq from the late 1960s until the mid-1970s, new evidence from documents of the former East German Ministry for State Security (Stasi) and the Iraqi Ba'th Party archives, combined with interviews of senior East German diplomats who served in the Arab world, indicates that the Stasi changed its policy in the second half of the 1970s and persisted with that policy in t…
The Courage of their Convictions: Creating Cultural Landscapes in 1930s Western Australia
Building a cultural landscape involves deep political and social processes. Discussions relating to decisions about preservation reveal cultural values at a particular moment and explain the character of the surviving landscape. This study analyses how one community in Western Australia defined its sense of place and identity. In the 1930s, on a wave of historical consciousness, Western Australians sought to enshrine the desire to preserve a rang…
The Common Cormorant or Shag Lays Eggs Inside a Paper Bag'. A Cultural Ecology of Fish-eating Birds in Western Australia
This paper builds a history of the rise of ecological awareness of the Swan River in Perth, Western Australia through the cultural perceptions of fish-eating birds. A history of understandings of the specific habitat ecology is traced through the rise of scientific knowledge about fish-eating birds as competitors with fishermen. The impact of this changing awareness on the river ecology is discussed as well as how this scientific knowledge became…
Ideology, symbolic action and rituality in social movements: The Effects on Organizational Forms
Colors, artifacts and ideologies
E. L. Mitchell and the imaginary Broome
The West Kimberley town of Broome, Western Australia, has been a persistent motif in the imagination and writings of Australians since its declaration as a townsite in 1883. Located over 2000 kilometres north of Perth, Western Australia, and thus physically inaccessible to many, the received image of Broome with its pearling history and economy has been shaped predominantly through illustrations and text in newspapers, government publications, ma…
Photography and anthropology
Raw Histories is an important contribution to debates about the origins of photographic meanings, ideas about photographic objects, and the roles of individuals and institutions in shaping knowledge through collecting and exhibition practices. Raw Histories has a complex set of foundations and genealogies from which it develops its stmcture and arguments. It builds on Clifford Geertz's idea of a ‘thick’ description of photographs — that is, using…
The Common Cormorant or Shag Lays Eggs Inside a Paper Bag'. A Cultural Ecology of Fish-eating Birds in Western Australia
This paper builds a history of the rise of ecological awareness of the Swan River in Perth, Western Australia through the cultural perceptions of fish-eating birds. A history of understandings of the specific habitat ecology is traced through the rise of scientific knowledge about fish-eating birds as competitors with fishermen. The impact of this changing awareness on the river ecology is discussed as well as how this scientific knowledge became…
Other histories
This is an interesting and important book. In one sense, its' authors deal with familiar lines of enquiry surrounding the cultural contexts of the production and consumption of photography. However, the importance of this book is in the choice of sites where these discussions are played out. Rather than focusing entirely on the Western colonial context and the proscribed nature of the ideological approaches of Edward Said and Michel Foucault, the…
The Politics of Pictures: A Cultural History of the Western Australian Government Print Photograph Collection
Archivally nuanced studies reveal that as whole objects, and for each of their constituent parts, photographic archives are the products of specific cultural and social relations. The archival approach used in this analysis of the Western Australian Government Print Collection relies on understanding the interactive relationships between the changing political and administrative contexts of the production of the photographs with their content and…
The Courage of their Convictions: Creating Cultural Landscapes in 1930s Western Australia
Building a cultural landscape involves deep political and social processes. Discussions relating to decisions about preservation reveal cultural values at a particular moment and explain the character of the surviving landscape. This study analyses how one community in Western Australia defined its sense of place and identity. In the 1930s, on a wave of historical consciousness, Western Australians sought to enshrine the desire to preserve a rang…
Archives: Recordkeeping in Society edited by Sue McKemmish, Michael Piggott, Barbara Reed and Frank Upward
riting about memory is a popular topic for historians.Public History Review volume 10 had the title Remembering and Forgetting.Historians now recognise museums as memory institutions, with an analytical focus on the exhibition as a representation of contemporary ideas.In order, however, to penetrate the exhibition, the historical processes of collecting, preserving and documenting need to be understood.This kind of archaeology of exhibitions requ…
Beyond chip monks and paper tigers: Towards a new culture of archival format specialists
Minority reports: Indigenous and community voices in archives. Papers from the 4th International Conference on the History of Records and Archives (Ichora4), Perth, Western Australia, August 2008
The Iraqi Refugees: The New Crisis in the Middle East
Since 2003, over 4 million Iraqis have been forced to flee their homes, in what amounts to one of the largest people movements in modern times, far exceeding the Palestinian outflow after 1948. Despite media reports of an improved security situation in Iraq, the majority of refugees are still afraid to return. The social, economic, political and security consequences of such an event are huge. In this rigorous and timely book, Joseph Sassoon expl…
Saddam Hussein's Ba'th Party: Inside an Authoritarian Regime
The Ba'th Party came to power in 1968 and remained for thirty-five years, until the 2003 US invasion. Under the leadership of Saddam Hussein, who became president of Iraq in 1979, a powerful authoritarian regime was created based on a system of violence and an extraordinary surveillance network, as well as reward schemes and incentives for supporters of the party. The true horrors of this regime have been exposed for the first time through a mass…
Becoming anthropological: A cultural biography of EL Mitchell’s photographs of Aboriginal people
Johan FRANZEN. Red Star over Iraq: Iraqi Communism before Saddam
Journal Article Johan Franzén. Red Star over Iraq: Iraqi Communism before Saddam. Get access Johan Franzén. Red Star over Iraq: Iraqi Communism before Saddam.New York: Columbia University Press. 2011. Pp. xix, 276. Cloth $60.00, e-book $47.99. Joseph Sassoon Joseph Sassoon Georgetown University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 117, Issue 5, Decembe…
My country's heart is in the market place: Tom Stannage interviewed by Peter Read
Tom Stannage was one among many historians in the 1970s uncovering histories of Australia which were to challenge national narratives and community memories. In 1971, Tom returned to Western Australia after writing his PhD in Cambridge with the passion to write urban history and an understanding that in order to do so, he needed an emotional engagement with place. What he had yet to realize was the power of community memories in Western Australia…
The East German Ministry for State Security and Iraq, 1968–1989
Despite the close relationship between the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and Iraq from the late 1960s until the mid-1970s, new evidence from documents of the former East German Ministry for State Security (Stasi) and the Iraqi Ba'th Party archives, combined with interviews of senior East German diplomats who served in the Arab world, indicates that the Stasi changed its policy in the second half of the 1970s and persisted with that policy in t…
State Security, Information, and Repression: A Comparison of Communist Bulgaria and Ba'thist Iraq
The centrality of a strong state security apparatus to the maintenance of authoritarian rule via the threat or use of repression has been highlighted in classic studies of single-party regimes as well as in more recent analyses of authoritarian resilience in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. This article focuses on two other fundamental questions related to the operation of state security forces in single-party autocracies during the Cold War. …
The Iraqi Ba‘th Party Preparatory School and the ‘Cultural’ Courses of the Branches
Political indoctrination of the Ba’th party cadre in Iraq was critical for the durability of the regime for 35 years. The party preparatory school was the vehicle for the ideological training of the party elite, while special courses, provided by the party branches, focused on the ‘cultural’ education of the party's lower echelons to prepare them for becoming active members. Using the Ba’th's own archives, the article examines how the party's sch…
Introduction: Archives, Memory and Place from the Canberra Perspective
This is an introductory piece to a special section based on a 2013 cross-disciplinary conference on the lived experience of Canberra
Modern middle east authoritarianism: Roots, Ramifications, and Crisis
As the Arab revolts in Egypt, Syria, and Libya face serious hurdles, and pessimism about the state of affairs in the region (with some optimism about Tunisia) is rising, this new edited volume come
Anatomy of Authoritarianism in the Arab Republics
By examining the system of authoritarianism in eight Arab republics, Joseph Sassoon portrays life under these regimes and explores the mechanisms underpinning their resilience. How did the leadership in these countries create such enduring systems? What was the economic system that prolonged the regimes' longevity, but simultaneously led to their collapse? Why did these seemingly stable regimes begin to falter? This book seeks to answer these que…
Party and governance in the Arab republics
By focusing on political memoirs as an important source, the article deals with the ruling party and governance in the Arab republics, whether they had a one-party system such as Iraq and Syria, or a multi-party system such as Egypt and Tunisia. However, one country among the republics, Libya, annulled political parties and parliament and created its own unique system of governance. Through memoirs of party members, parliamentary opponents, and m…
The Iraqi Occupation of Kuwait: New Historical Perspectives
The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait was a critical juncture in both countries' histories. With unprecedented access to internal Iraqi documents about the invasion of Kuwait, this article underscores how the Iraqi leadership perceived Kuwait, assesses the Iraqi regime's objectives in Kuwait, and analyzes Kuwaiti resistance to the Iraqi occupation. The article ultimately aims to show that Iraq's policies of violence and dispossession in Kuwait were simila…
Capturing Nature: Early Scientific Photography at the Australian Museum 1857–1893
Capturing Nature: Early Scientific Photography at the Australian Museum 1857–1893." Australian Historical Studies, 50(3), pp. 400–401
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