Cultural cleansing in Iraq : why museums were looted, libraries burned and academics murdered /

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Why did the invasion of Iraq result in cultural destruction and killings of intellectuals? Convention sees accidents of war and poor planning in a campaign to liberate Iraqis. The authors argue instead that the invasion aimed to dismantle the Iraqi state to remake it as a client regime. Post-invasio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Baker, Raymond William, 1942-, Ismael, Shereen T., Ismael, Tareq Y.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Pluto Press, 2010.
Temas:
2003-2011
Iraq War, 2003-2011 > Destruction and pillage.
Cultural property > Protection > Iraq.
Guerre en Irak, 2003-2011 > Destruction et pillage.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
HISTORY > Military > Iraq War (2003- )
Cultural property > Protection.
Destruction and pillage.
Intellectual life.
Golfkrieg > 2003
Kulturgut
Zerstörung
Geistesleben
Iraq > Intellectual life.
Iraq.
Irak
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I Formulating and executing the policy of cultural cleansing
  • Ending the Iraqi state / Raymond W. Baker, Shereen T. Ismael, and Tareq Y. Ismael
  • Cultural cleansing in comparative perspective / Glenn E. Perry
  • Part II Policy in motion : the assault on Iraq's incomparable history
  • Archaeology and the strategies of war / Zainab Bahrani
  • The current status of the archaeological heritage of Iraq / Abbas al-Hussainy
  • Negligent mnemocide and the shattering of Iraqi collective memory / Nabil al-Takriti
  • Part III Policy in motion : the present and the future
  • Killing the intellectual class : academics as targets / Dirk Adriaensens
  • Wiping the slate clean / Max Fuller and Dirk Adriaensens
  • Death, displacement, or flight / Dahr Jamail
  • The purging of minds / Philip Marfleet
  • Minorities in Iraq : the other victims / Mokhtar Lamani
  • Appendix 1 : Reflections on death anxiety and university professors in Iraq / Faris K.O. Nadhmi
  • Appendix 2 : List of murdered academics.

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