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Following the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, many Iraqi academics were assassinated. Countless others received bullets in envelopes and instructions to leave their institutions (and in many cases the country) or get killed. Many heeded the warning and fled into exile.
Having played such a pivotal role in shaping post-independence Iraqi society, the exile and internal displacement of its academics has had a profound impact. Tracing the academic, political and social lives of 63 academics, Bullets in Envelopes offers a 'genealogy of loss', and a groundbreaking appraisal of the dismantling and restructuring of Iraqi institutions, culture and society.
Through extensive fieldwork in the UK, Jordan and Iraqi Kurdistan, Louis Yako shows the human side of the destructive 2003 occupation, and asks us to imagine a better future.
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'These life stories of academics from around the globe tell a vivid, inspiring and sometimes poetic history of modern Iraq'
-- miriam cooke, Braxton Craven Professor of Arab Cultures, Duke University'Searing! The American assault aimed to 'end' the Iraqi state and shatter the culture that sustained it. Yako retrieves the stories of some sixty displaced Iraqi academics. Distillations of their experiences read as if written on shards of glass that penetrate the skin and wound the heart'
-- Raymond W. Baker, Board Director, International Council for Middle East Studies, Washington, D.C.'Luis Yako's thinking is as compelling as his writing. 'Bullets in Envelopes' persuasively shifts the politics of argumentation. He uses anthropology to convey the existential turbulence of academics in exile after the US invasion, instead of using academics to advance the discipline'
-- Walter D. Mignolo, author of 'The Politics of Decolonial Investigations' (Duke University Press, 2021)'Excavates a searing genealogy of loss that documents Iraqi academics' displacement, through a powerful account of the travails of higher education and the links between power and knowledge'
-- Sherene Seikaly, Associate Professor in the Department of History, University of California, Santa BarbaraISBN: 9780745341989
ISBN-10: 0745341985
Published: 20th June 2021
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 256
Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publisher: Pluto Press
Country of Publication: GB
Dimensions (cm): 20 x 13.5 x 2
Weight (kg): 0.28
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