Being Human : Political Modernity and Hospitality in Kurdistan-Iraq Hardback
by Fazil Moradi
Part of the Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights series
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The Iraqi Baʿth state’s Anfāl operations (1987-1991) is one of the twentieth century’s ultimate acts of destruction of the possibility of being human.
It remains the first and only crime of state in the Middle East to be tried under the 1948 UN Genocide Convention, the 1950 Nuremberg Principles, and the 1969 Iraqi Penal Code and to be recognized as genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes in Baghdad between 2006 and 2007. Being Human: Political Modernity and Hospitality in Kurdistan-Iraq offers an unprecedented pathway to the study of political violence.
It is a sweeping work of anthropological hospitality, returning to the AnfaÌ„l operations as the violence of political modernity only to turn to the human survivors’ hospitality and acts of translation—testimonial narratives, law, politics, archive, poetry, artworks, museums, memorials, symbolic cemeteries, and infinite pursuit of justice in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Being Human gathers together social sciences, humanities, and the arts to understand modernity's violence and its living on. Â
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- Pages:210 pages, 18 B-W images
- Publisher:Rutgers University Press
- Publication Date:12/01/2024
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:210 pages, 18 B-W images
- Publisher:Rutgers University Press
- Publication Date:12/01/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9781978831704