Genocide Culture

Cultural Habitus, Ethnic Engineering and Religious Doxa
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-31258-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 314 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 604 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Genocide and Crimes against Humanity

This book considers different stages of Kurdish history, oppression, and genocide through a critical lens, offering an historiography of Iraq and colonialism. Divided into two parts, the first part conceptualizes the coined term “genocide culture” and examines dominant Iraqi cultural practices that fostered genocide. The second part contextualizes the experiences of the Kurdish community to examine the effects of cultural practices and the role of “civilian actors” in fueling the extermination of targeted groups.

Through semi-structured interviews, primary archival documents, and nonparticipant observation, the author studies the links between everyday cultural practices and microaggression in general and the nexus between the state and the 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, international relations, ethnic conflict, and Middle Eastern studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Salih, Kaziwa

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Ba’athism and the Ba’athification 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 Ba’athification 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

Über Autor(innen)

Kaziwa Salih holds a Ph.D. from Queen’s 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.