"This book considers different stages of Kurdish history, oppression, and genocide, through a critical lens offering an historiography of Iraq and of colonialism. Divided into two parts, the first part conceptualizes the term 'genocide culture' and examines dominant Iraqi cultural practices which fostered genocide. The second contextualizes the experiences of the Kurdish community to examine the effects of the cultural practices and the role of "civilian actors" in fuelling the extermination of targeted groups"--
This book considers different stages of Kurdish history, oppression, and genocide, through a critical lens offering an historiography of Iraq and of colonialism.
This book considers different stages of Kurdish history, oppression, and genocide, through a critical lens offering an historiography of Iraq and of colonialism. Divided into two parts, the first part conceptualizes the term genocide culture and examines dominant Iraqi cultural practices which fostered genocide. The second contextualizes the experiences of the Kurdish community to examine the effects of the cultural practices and the role of civilian actors in fuelling the extermination of targeted groups.
Through semi-structured interviews, primary archival documents, and non-participant observation the author studies the links between everyday cultural practices and microaggression in general and the nexus between the state and general population in the implementation of macroaggression and genocide. The audience will include scholars and students interested in genocide studies and the relation of both genocide and culture to histories of colonialism as well as those working in the fields of violence and cultural psychology, sociology, history, ethnic conflict, and Middle Eastern studies.
Illustrations
Acknowledgment
List of Abbreviations
Notes on Translation
Introduction
1 Background: A Brief History of The Kurds
PART I Conceptualization of Genocide Culture
2 Introduction to Genocide Culture: Genocide Culture, Civilian Actors, Ethnic
Engineering
3 Stimulation of Genocide Culture: Tribalism, Leader Syndrome, and
Structuration of Public and Private Spheres
4 The Inception of Genocide Culture: Pre-Existing Culture, Moral Panic, and
Iraqi Doxa
5 The Evolution of Genocide Culture: Pan-Arab Nationalism, Sociopolitical
Violence, and the Orientalization of the Outfield
6 The Manifestation of Genocide Culture: Religious Doxa, Religio-Cultural
Habitus, and Deistic Ideology
7 Distinction of Genocide Culture from Cultural Genocide: Culture Kills
Culture, Acculturation, and Bottom-Up Cascade
PART II Contextualization of Genocide Culture
8 The Institutionalization of Baathism and the Baathification of
Institutions: Institutionalized Genocide Culture, Autopoietic
Self-Reproducing, and Militarized Society
9 Genocide Culture via Linguicide: Language Education Policy, Saddamist
State, and Death of Linguistic Capital
10 Genocide Culture in Assimilative Education: The Elimination of Illiteracy,
the Baathification and Militarization of Education, and Identification
Numbering Policy
11 Genocide Culture in the Context of Land Destruction and Demographic
Engineering: Confiscation, Demographic Destruction, and Legalization of
Illegal Actions
12 Conclusion
Index
Kaziwa Salih holds a Ph.D. from Queens University, Canada, where she specialized in the cultural sociology of genocide/violence and the way microaggressions foster macroaggression. She is the multiple award-winning author of over 10 non-fiction and fiction books and has written many articles and academic articles. She founded and served as the editor-in-chief of two Kurdish journals, Nvar and Newekar, and currently, she serves as the Collection Editor for Middle Eastern Studies at Lived Place Publishing. Her commitment to human rights is evident through her involvement with various organizations across Canada, Kurdistan, Egypt, and Syria, including notable contributions to the United Nations Association and Amnesty International.
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