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Collateral damages : tracing the debts and displacements of the Iraq War

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  • Monograph
  • Text

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  • Refugees--Iraq--21st century (LCSH)
  • Iraq War, 2003-2011--Refugees (LCSH)

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Summary

"More than twenty years after the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq, there has yet to be a meaningful public reckoning with the war. Collateral Damages brings Iraqi stories--which have been systematically excluded from dominant Western narratives of the war--to the fore. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted over a decade, Nadia El-Shaarawi traces Iraqis' experiences of the 2003 invasion and the violence and displacement that followed, from urban exile in Cairo to efforts to rebuild by pursuing third-country resettlement--often in the very country responsible for them becoming refugees. Iraqis' theorizations of war and displacement illuminate how prevailing histories and memories of both the Iraq War and the larger Global War on Terror can be understood as imperial unknowing--epistemological and relational practices by which imperial power produces conditions of ignorance, hubris, obfuscation, and a willful turning away. Iraqis' accounts draw attention to that which empire prefers to keep hidden and offer possibilities for knowing the social and political effects of war differently"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Introduction : departure -- "Bad history" : imperial unknowing and the Iraq War -- War archive -- Living in the transit city : seeking refuge, refusing refugeeness -- Navigating humanitarian solutions to displacement : Iraqis' experiences of the refugee resettlement process in Cairo -- Allies and enemies -- Conclusion : arrival.

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El-Shaarawi, Nadia. Collateral damages : tracing the debts and displacements of the Iraq War

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  • Date: 2026-09-11T21:51:59.016219+00:00
  • Agent: cbc
  • Status: c
  • Derived from: 24023472

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  • Date: 2026-09-11
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  • Description language: eng
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