Collateral Damages

Tracing the Debts and Displacements of the Iraq War

Nadia El-Shaarawi (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2025
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39213-7 (ISBN)

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More than twenty years after the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq, there has yet to be a meaningful public reckoning with the war. Collateral Damages brings Iraqi stories—which have been systematically excluded from dominant Western narratives of the war—to the fore. Drawing on a decade of ethnographic fieldwork, Nadia El-Shaarawi traces Iraqis' experiences of the 2003 invasion and the violence and displacement that followed, from urban exile in Cairo to efforts to rebuild by pursuing third-country resettlement—often in the very country responsible for them becoming refugees. Iraqis' theorizations of war and displacement illuminate how prevailing histories and memories of both the Iraq War and the larger Global War on Terror can be understood as imperial unknowing—epistemological and relational practices by which imperial power produces conditions of ignorance, hubris, obfuscation, and a willful turning away. Iraqis' accounts draw attention to that which empire prefers to keep hidden and offer possibilities for knowing the social and political effects of war differently.

Nadia El-Shaarawi is Associate Professor of Global Studies at Colby College.

Contents

Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration

Introduction: Departure
1. "Bad History": Imperial Unknowing and the Iraq War
2. War Archive: Telling and Listening to War Stories
3. Living in the Transit City: Seeking Refuge, Refusing Refugeeness
4. Negotiating Humanitarian "Solutions" to Displacement: Iraqis' Experiences of the Refugee Resettlement Process in Cairo
5. Allies and Enemies: Resettlement and the Conditionality of Iraqis' Relations with US Empire
Conclusion: Arrival

Notes
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	18.04.2025
Reihe/Serie	California Series in Public Anthropology ; 60
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-39213-2 / 0520392132
ISBN-13	978-0-520-39213-7 / 9780520392137
Zustand	Neuware