Being Human
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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 Anfāl 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.
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 Baʿth state.
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.
Contents
List of Figures
Map of the Anfāl operations
Prologue
1 The Destruction of Jalamourd, an Outlawed Village
2 The Inhospitality of Political Modernity
3 Homeless in the World
4 The Baghdād Tribunal
5 Habitability, in the Afterlives of a Massacre
6 Whose Homeland? Whose Nation?
7 Physiological Disquiet
Epilogue: Genosite
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Notes
Index
List of Figures
Map of the Anfāl operations
Prologue
1 The Destruction of Jalamourd, an Outlawed Village
2 The Inhospitality of Political Modernity
3 Homeless in the World
4 The Baghdād Tribunal
5 Habitability, in the Afterlives of a Massacre
6 Whose Homeland? Whose Nation?
7 Physiological Disquiet
Epilogue: Genosite
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Notes
Index
Additional information
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