{"product_id":"being-human-political-modernity-and-hospitality-in-kurdistan-iraq-paperback-softback-9781978831698","title":"Being Human; Political Modernity and Hospitality in Kurdistan-Iraq (Paperback \/ softback) 9781978831698","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBeing Human\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePolitical Modernity and Hospitality in Kurdistan-Iraq\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eFazil Moradi (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781978831698\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 12 January 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e210 pages, 18 B-W images\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.286 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBeing Human \u003c\/i\u003eis an unsettling and urgent work of scholarship that transcends the confines of the university to address some of the most compelling conditions of human life and death. Anthropological hospitality, the idea at the heart of this book, provides an illuminating and passionate perspective on the plight of locality in the fight for the recognition of global justice.\" - Homi K. Bhabha (Homi K. Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University) \"In rich, poetic prose, Fazil Moradi brilliantly unravels the politics of reading, witnessing, and memory challenging us to listen to survivors of the al-Anfal to understand the limits and possibilities of justice and accountability without losing sight of the hope and trust required for acts of hospitality and translation in\u003ci\u003e Being Human\u003c\/i\u003e.\" - Victoria Sanford (Victoria Sanford, author of Textures of Terror: The Murder of Claudina Isabel Velasquez and Her Fath) \"Fazil Moradi writes at a critical historical juncture where so many of us are grappling with what it means to be human in an increasingly uncertain world.   In \u003ci\u003eBeing Human\u003c\/i\u003e, a nod to Jelalulddin al- Rumi, Moradi makes an important intervention by bringing hospitality to the center of understanding what international definitions of genocide, violence, and militarism leave unexplained. This is a well-argued book and a captivating narrative urging us to think about how the afterlives of colonial and postcolonial acts of violence continue to shape the modern nation state and its presumed future. This is a must read for those interested in the history, art, and politics of \u003ci\u003egenosites\u003c\/i\u003e in the Iraq Kurdistan region and beyond.\" - Amal Hassan Fadlalla (Amal Hassan Fadlalla, author of Branding Humanity: Competing Narratives of Rights, Violence, and Glo) \"Raw and beautiful. Moradi shows us how to listen to survivors of mass violence. In silences, gestures, and words from generous hosts who lived through the mass Anfal attacks of late 20th-century Kurdistan Iraq, Moradi implicates political modernity. This book richly and poignantly displays the dignity and beauty of both people lost, and those who live on having survived and witnessed. It is painful to read, and that is one of its successes. All students of the modern state should read this book.\"\u003cbr\u003e   - Diane E. King (Diane E. King, author of Kurdistan on the Global Stage: Kinship, Land, and Community in Iraq)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e The Iraqi Baʿth state’s Anfāl operations (1987-1991) is one of the twentieth century’s ultimate acts of destruction of the possibility of being human. It remains the first and only crime of state in the Middle East to be tried under the 1948 UN Genocide Convention, the 1950 Nuremberg Principles, and the 1969 Iraqi Penal Code and to be recognized as genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes in Baghdad between 2006 and 2007. \u003ci\u003eBeing Human: Political Modernity and Hospitality in Kurdistan-Iraq\u003c\/i\u003e offers an unprecedented pathway to the study of political violence. It is a sweeping work of anthropological hospitality, returning to the Anfāl operations as the violence of political modernity only to turn to the human survivors’ hospitality and acts of translation-testimonial narratives, law, politics, archive, poetry, artworks, museums, memorials, symbolic cemeteries, and infinite pursuit of justice in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. \u003ci\u003eBeing Human\u003c\/i\u003e gathers together social sciences, humanities, and the arts to understand modernity's violence and its living on.  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e   \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eContents\u003cbr role='\"\u0026lt;br'\u003epresentation\"\u003cbr\u003e \/\u0026gt; List of Figures\u003cbr role='\"\u0026lt;br'\u003epresentation\"\u003cbr\u003e \/\u0026gt; Map of the Anfāl operations\u003cbr role='\"\u0026lt;br'\u003epresentation\"\u003cbr\u003e \/\u0026gt; Prologue\u003cbr\u003e 1 The Destruction of Jalamourd, an Outlawed Village\u003cbr role='\"\u0026lt;br'\u003epresentation\"\u003cbr\u003e \/\u0026gt; 2 The Inhospitality of Political Modernity\u003cbr role='\"\u0026lt;br'\u003epresentation\"\u003cbr\u003e \/\u0026gt; 3 Homeless in the World\u003cbr role='\"\u0026lt;br'\u003epresentation\"\u003cbr\u003e \/\u0026gt; 4 The Baghdād Tribunal\u003cbr role='\"\u0026lt;br'\u003epresentation\"\u003cbr\u003e \/\u0026gt; 5 Habitability, in the Afterlives of a Massacre\u003cbr role='\"\u0026lt;br'\u003epresentation\"\u003cbr\u003e \/\u0026gt; 6 Whose Homeland? Whose Nation?\u003cbr role='\"\u0026lt;br'\u003epresentation\"\u003cbr\u003e \/\u0026gt; 7 Physiological Disquiet\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Genosite\u003cbr role='\"\u0026lt;br'\u003epresentation\"\u003cbr\u003e \/\u0026gt; Acknowledgements\u003cbr role='\"\u0026lt;br'\u003epresentation\"\u003cbr\u003e \/\u0026gt; Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr role='\"\u0026lt;br'\u003epresentation\"\u003cbr\u003e \/\u0026gt; Index\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52712029061400,"sku":"9781978831698","price":28.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/being-human-political-modernity-and-hospitality-in-kurdistan-iraq-paperback-softback-9781978831698","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}