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Collateral Damages

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Collateral Damages

Tracing The Debts And Displacements Of The Iraq War

Nadia El-ShaarawiSeries: California in Public Anthropology

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256

Year

2025

Language

English

University of California Press

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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.

Related Subjects

Cultural & Social
Anthropology
Social Science
Adult Nonfiction
Iraq
Middle East
History
Iraq War (2003-2011)
Wars & Conflicts
Middle Eastern Studies
Cultural & Ethnic Studies

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