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Building from Scrap: War, Recycling, and Labor in Iraqi Kurdistan

Building from Scrap: War, Recycling, and Labor in Iraqi Kurdistan

Kuruüzüm, Umut

Paperback

AnthropologyGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 3030922227
ISBN13: 9783030922221
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: May 25 2023
Pages: 203
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.46 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This book is about the flourishing scrap recycling industry, reconstruction, and state-making in Iraqi Kurdistan within the wider conditions of the war economy, ruination, and state disintegration in Iraq. Through a dialectical relationship between the afterlife and continuity of war over distinct but conjoined landscapes, it examines industrial work, labouring, and statelessness on a frontier territory near the self-proclaimed Islamic State (ISIS). By documenting the advance of the global steelmaking industry, the spread and erosion of selective state sovereignty, and the struggle of dispossessed workers, the book sketches the economic geography of a contemporary market expansion over the northeast of Iraq in a relational and dynamic way.

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