Sara Pursley is Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University.

Introduction: Iraqi Futures and the Age of Development
1. Sovereignty, Violence, and the Dual Mandate
2. Determining a Self
3. The Gendering of School Time
4. Generational Time and the Marriage Crisis
5. The Family Farm and the Peculiar Futurist Perspective of Development
6. Revolutionary Time and Wasted Time
7. Law and the Post-Revolutionary Self
Epilogue: Postcolonial Heterotemporalitiess