Author: Salih Muhammad AwadhPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031713567
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The Geography of Iraq
Author: Salih Muhammad AwadhPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031713567
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The Creation of Iraq, 1914-1921
Author: Reeva Spector SimonPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231509200
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Leading scholars consider Iraq's history and strategic importance from the vantage point of its residents, neighbors (Iran, Turkey, and Kurdistan), and the Great Powers.
Kurdistan on the Global Stage
Author: Diane E. KingPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813563542
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Anthropologist Diane E. King has written about everyday life in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, which covers much of the area long known as Iraqi Kurdistan. Following the overthrow of Saddam Hussein’s Ba’thist Iraqi government by the United States and its allies in 2003, Kurdistan became a recognized part of the federal Iraqi system. The Region is now integrated through technology, media, and migration to the rest of the world. Focusing on household life in Kurdistan’s towns and villages, King explores the ways that residents connect socially, particularly through patron-client relationships and as people belonging to gendered categories. She emphasizes that patrilineages (male ancestral lines) seem well adapted to the Middle Eastern modern stage and viceversa. The idea of patrilineal descent influences the meaning of refuge-seeking and migration as well as how identity and place are understood, how women and men interact, and how “politicking” is conducted. In the new Kurdistan, old values may be maintained, reformulated, or questioned. King offers a sensitive interpretation of the challenges resulting from the intersection of tradition with modernity. Honor killings still occur when males believe their female relatives have dishonored their families, and female genital cutting endures. Yet, this is a region where modern technology has spread and seemingly everyone has a mobile phone. Households may have a startling combination of illiterate older women and educated young women. New ideas about citizenship coexist with older forms of patronage. King is one of the very few scholars who conducted research in Iraq under extremely difficult conditions during the Saddam Hussein regime. How she was able to work in the midst of danger and in the wake of genocide is woven throughout the stories she tells. Kurdistan on the Global Stage serves as a lesson in field research as well as a valuable ethnography.
UNEP in Iraq
Author: United Nations Environment ProgrammePublisher: UNEP/Earthprint
ISBN: 9789280729061
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
This report is an up-to-date compilation of the various activities undertaken by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in Iraq between 2003 and 2006. It makes an objective assessment of the impacts of UNEP's intervention and documents the lessons learnt in implementing the activities in a complex situation such as Iraq. The publication provides a significant insight into the overall success of UNEP's intervention in Iraq.
Geopolitics and the Event
Author: Alan IngramPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119426057
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
An original exploration of the 2003 Iraq war and geopolitics more broadly through the prism of art. Offers a reappraisal of one of the most contentious and consequential events of the early twenty-first century Advances an original perspective on Britain’s role in the 2003 invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq Maps out new ways of thinking about geopolitical events through art Examines the work of artists, curators and activists in light of Britain’s role as a colonial power in Iraq and the importance of oil Reflects on the significance, limits and dilemmas of art as a form of critical intervention Questions the implications of art in colonialism and modernity
Iraq & The Persian Gulf
Author: Naval Intelligence DivisionPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136892737
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 749
Book Description
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
A History of Iraq
Author: Charles TrippPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521529006
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
This updated edition of Charles Tripp's A History of Iraq covers events since 1998, and looks at present-day developments right up to mid-2002. Since its establishment by the British in the 1920s Iraq has witnessed the rise and fall of successive regimes, culminating in the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. Tripp traces Iraq's political history from its nineteenth-century roots in the Ottoman empire, to the development of the state, its transformation from monarchy to republic and the rise of the Ba'th party and the ascendancy of Saddam Hussein.
The Iraqi Marshlands and the Marsh Arabs
Author: Sam KubbaPublisher: Trans Pacific Press
ISBN: 9780863723339
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
This text is for those wishing to develop an understanding of a cultural legacy and lifestyle that survives today only as a fragmented cultural inheritance. The book illustrates how the economy and lives of the Ma'dan (Marsh Arabs) that spans over 5000 years remained similar to the ancient practices of their Sumerian forebears.
Feminist Geopolitics
Author: Deborah P. DixonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134916531
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Building on a trans-disciplinary, feminist project that foregrounds the bodies of those at the ‘sharp end’ of various forms of international activity, such as immigration, development and warfare, the chapters included in this book cover a variety of sites, concerns, and hopes. These range from the fraught geopolitics of marriage and birth in Ladakh, India, to the fate of detained migrant children in the U.S., and from the human rights abuses of women and children in Uzbekistan to the body politics of aid workers in Afghanistan. The collective aim is to expose the force relations that operate through and upon those bodies, such that particular subjectivities are enhanced, constrained, and put to work, and particular corporealities are violated, exploited, and often abandoned. Oriented around issues of security, population, territory, and nationalism, these chapters expose the proliferating bodies of geopolitics, not simply as the bearers of socially demarcated borders and boundaries, but as vulnerable corporealities, seeking to negotiate and transform the geopolitics they both animate and inhabit. This book was originally published as a special issue of Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography.
Author: CAITLIN. FINLAYSON