Cultural Cleansing in Iraq 1st Edition by Raymond Baker, Shereen T Ismael, Tareq Ismael ISBN 978-0745328126 0745328121
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ISBN 10: 0745328121
ISBN 13: 978-0745328126
Author: Raymond W. Baker, Shereen T Ismael, Tareq Y. Ismael
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-invasion chaos created conditions under which the cultural foundations of the state could be undermined. The authors painstakingly document the consequences of the occupiers’ willful inaction and worse, which led to the ravaging of one of the world’s oldest recorded cultures. Targeted assassination of over 400 academics, kidnapping and the forced flight of thousands of doctors, lawyers, artists and other intellectuals add up to cultural cleansing.
This important work lays to rest claims that the invasion aimed to free an educated population to develop its own culture of democracy.
Table of contents:
PART I: Formulating and Executing the Policy of Cultural Cleansing
Ending the Iraqi State
Cultural Cleansing in Comparative Perspective
PART II: Policy in Motion – The Assault on Iraq’s Incomparable History
Archaeology and the Strategies of War
The Current Status of the Archaeological Heritage of Iraq
Negligent Mnemocide and the Shattering of Iraqi Collective Memory
PART III: Policy in Motion – The Present and the Future
Killing the Intellectual Class: Academics as Targets
Wiping the Slate Clean
Death, Displacement, or Flight
The Purging of Minds
Minorities in Iraq: The Other Victims
Appendices
Appendix 1: Reflections on Death Anxiety and University Professors in Iraq
Appendix 2: List of Murdered Academics
Notes on Contributors
Index
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