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Kurdistan + 100 poses a question to twelve contemporary Kurdish
writers: might the Kurds have a country to call their own by the
year 2046 - exactly a century after the last glimmer of
independence (the short-lived Kurdish Republic of Mahabad)? Or
might the struggle for independence have taken new turns and new
forms? Throughout the 20th century (and so far in the 21st), the
Kurds have been betrayed, suppressed, stripped of their basic
rights (from citizenship to the freedom to speak their own
language) and had their political aspirations crushed at every
turn. In this groundbreaking anthology, Kurdish authors (including
several former political prisoners, and one currently serving a
183-year sentence for his views) imagine a freer future, one in
which it is no longer effectively illegal to be a Kurd. From future
eco-activism, to drone warfare, to the resuscitation of victims of
past massacres, these stories explore different sides of the
present struggle through the metaphor of futurism to dazzling
effect. The first anthology of Kurdish science fiction ever
collected and published in the UK, we have invited authors from all
parts of 'Kurdistan' and the diaspora to write specially
commissioned stories set in their own versions of the future.
Following the US's bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the
scenes of chaos at Kabul Airport, we could be forgiven for thinking
we're experiencing an 'end of empire' moment, that the US is
entering a new, less belligerent era in its foreign policy, and
that its tenure as self-appointed 'global policeman' is coming to
an end. Before we get our hopes up though, it's wise to remember
exactly what this policeman has done, for the world, and ask
whether it's likely to change its behaviour after any one setback.
After 75 years of war, occupation, and political interference -
installing dictators, undermining local political movements,
torturing enemies, and assisting in the arrest of opposition
leaders (from OEcalan to Mandela) - the US military-industrial
complex doesn't seem to know how to stop. This anthology explores
the human cost of these many interventions onto foreign soil, with
stories by writers from that soil - covering everything from
torture in Abu Ghraib, to coups and counterrevolutionary wars in
Latin America, to all-out invasions in the Middle and Far East.
Alongside testimonies from expert historians and ground-breaking
journalists, these stories present a history that too many of us in
the West simply pretend never happened. This new anthology
re-examines this history with stories that explore the human cost
of these interventions on foreign soil, by writers from that soil.
From nuclear testing in the Pacific, to human testing of CIA
torture tactics, from coups in Latin America, to all-out invasions
in the Middle and Far East; the atrocities that follow are often
dismissed in history books as inevitable in the 'fog of war'. By
presenting them from indigenous, grassroots perspectives,
accompanied by afterwords by the historians that consulted on them,
this book attempts to bring some clarity back to that history.
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