Being Human - Political Modernity and Hospitality in Kurdistan-Iraq

Being Human: Political Modernity and Hospitality in Kurdistan-Iraq is a unique work of anthropological hospitality that draws on historical sources, eyewitness testimonies, perpetrator testimony, archival documents, trial records, artwork, novels, and poetry, to engage with one of political modernity’s acts of genocide in Iraq under the Iraqi Bäth state.
 

Table des matières

Contents
List of Figures
Map of the Anf¿l operations
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1 The Destruction of Jalamourd, an Outlawed Village
2 The Inhospitality of Political Modernity
3 Homeless in the World
4 The Baghd¿d Tribunal
5 Habitability, in the Afterlives of a Massacre
6 Whose Homeland? Whose Nation?
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Epilogue: Genosite
Acknowledgements
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Notes
Index

A propos de l'auteur

Fazil Moradi is a visiting associate professor in the Faculty of Humanities, Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study, University of Johannesburg; an associate researcher at the Institute for Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences; and an affiliated scholar at the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes against Humanity at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, Graduate Center—CUNY.

Résumé

Being Human: Political Modernity and Hospitality in Kurdistan-Iraq is a unique work of anthropological hospitality that draws on historical sources, eyewitness testimonies, perpetrator testimony, archival documents, trial records, artwork, novels, and poetry, to engage with one of political modernity’s acts of genocide in Iraq under the Iraqi Ba?th state.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Fazil Moradi
• Edition: Rutgers University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 01.01.2024
• EAN: 9781978831698
• ISBN: 978-1-978831-69-8
• Pages: 210
• Thèmes: Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights; Genocide, Political Violence,
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Histoire > Autres; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Littérature générale et comparée; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sciences politiques > Sciences politiques et formation politique