2003 occupation
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academics
assassination
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education
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ethnography
Exile
higher education
Internal Displacement
Iraq
Iraqi society
murder
persecution
postcolonial
Saddam Hussain
testimony
Product details
- ISBN 9780745341989
- Dimensions: 135 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 20 Jun 2021
- Publisher: Pluto Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Louis Yako is an independent Iraqi-American anthropologist, writer, poet and journalist. He has written for a range of publications including CounterPunch, openDemocracy, Global Research and The Feminist Wire.
