Surviving the Islamic State : contention, cooperation, and neutrality in wartime Iraq
Austin James Knuppe
Bok · Engelsk · 2024
| Omfang | xxii, 284 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | How do ordinary people survive war? -- Survival repertoires in wartime -- The rise and fall of the Islamic State, 2011-2017 -- Baghdad: Surviving war in the City of Peace -- Fallujah, Ramadi, and Tikrit: Navigating violence in the Sunni Triangle -- Ninewa Plains, Sinjar, and Tal Afar: Resilience in the Land of Two Rivers -- "We have on this land that which makes life worth living.". - "How do ordinary people survive wartime violence when it arrives in their neighborhood? When confronted with the threat of violence, how do individuals decide whether to stay in their homes or flee? For those who stay, what factors determine whether individuals cooperate or contend with insurgent governance? Since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003 up to the formation of the Islamic State, Iraqis from different walks of life have confronted existential decisions about how to survive political violence. Despite facing similar threats and limited resources, some people fled their homes while others remained. Among those who stayed, most hid, others resisted, some remained nonaligned, and a select few collaborated. In this book, Austin J. Knuppe draws on fieldwork in Baghdad and Iraqi Kurdistan, along with UN migration data, to illustrate how individuals drew upon a combination of routines, tools, and rhetorical strategies to navigate violent situations. Knuppe finds that Iraqis belonging to communities with limited cohesion and capacity survived by fleeing to safer areas under the protection of rival security providers. For those who stayed, the ability of communities to pursue cooperation, contention, or neutrality depended not only on the cohesion and capacity of the community, but also the resolve and combat effectiveness of the anti-IS coalitions. This account gives voice to ordinary Iraqis who were forced to make hard choices during times of intense danger and uncertainty, and sheds new light on the repertoires civilians employ when faced with war"--
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| ISBN | 9780231213868. - 9780231213875
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