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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. Being Human:
Political Modernity and Hospitality in Kurdistan-Iraq 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. Being Human gathers together social sciences,
humanities, and the arts to understand modernity's violence
and its living on. Â
This book focuses on the ethical, aesthetic, and scholarly
dimensions of how genocide-related works of art, documentary films,
poetry and performance, museums and monuments, music, dance, image,
law, memory narratives, spiritual bonds, and ruins are translated
and take place as translations of acts of genocide. It shows how
genocide-related modes of representation are acts of translation
which displace and produce memory and acts of remembrance of
genocidal violence as inheritance of the past in a future present.
Thus, the possibility of representation is examined in light of
what remains in the aftermath where the past and the future are
inseparable companions and we find the idea of the
untranslatability in acts of genocide. By opening up both the past
and lived experiences of genocidal violence as and through multiple
acts of translation, this volume marks a heterogeneous turn towards
the future, and one which will be of interest to all scholars and
students of memory and genocide studies, transitional justice,
sociology, psychology, and social anthropology.
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. Being Human:
Political Modernity and Hospitality in Kurdistan-Iraq 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. Being Human gathers together social sciences,
humanities, and the arts to understand modernity's violence
and its living on. Â
This book focuses on the ethical, aesthetic, and scholarly
dimensions of how genocide-related works of art, documentary films,
poetry and performance, museums and monuments, music, dance, image,
law, memory narratives, spiritual bonds, and ruins are translated
and take place as translations of acts of genocide. It shows how
genocide-related modes of representation are acts of translation
which displace and produce memory and acts of remembrance of
genocidal violence as inheritance of the past in a future present.
Thus, the possibility of representation is examined in light of
what remains in the aftermath where the past and the future are
inseparable companions and we find the idea of the
untranslatability in acts of genocide. By opening up both the past
and lived experiences of genocidal violence as and through multiple
acts of translation, this volume marks a heterogeneous turn towards
the future, and one which will be of interest to all scholars and
students of memory and genocide studies, transitional justice,
sociology, psychology, and social anthropology.
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