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More than 20 years have passed since Iraq was invaded in an illegal war, justified on the basis of falsified evidence. Operation Iraqi Freedom led to untold human suffering and massive destruction, the ruinous consequences of which persist to this very day. The war and occupation also had a devastating impact on the history and heritage of Iraq, a land ironically seen as the cradle of civilisation. The scale of theft and destruction of heritage sent shockwaves around the world that had radical consequences for the trade in antiquities and museum practices across the globe, and contributed to a paradigm shift in the discipline of archaeology. In War Essays Zainab Bahrani charts the devastation, cultural cleansing and targeted erasure of Iraq’s past, and argues that the topics of archaeology, history and memory must be analysed within the larger geopolitical issues of the contemporary Middle East. The essays present a counter-narrative of events that historicize the position of the historian and illustrate the enduring colonial practices of archaeology. Set within a narrative that reflects at once upon the violence of war and the processes of writing, an archaeologist’s personal journey unfolds. War Essays intertwines the autobiographical with the historical and analytical aspects of scholarship, weaving an eye-witness account of war with theoretical discussions around writing, the relationship of monuments, historical landscapes and memory, and how one’s sense of place in the world is disrupted by war.
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Keywords
- Archaeology
- autobiographical
- Colonial practices
- Conflict archaeology
- cultural cleansing
- Cultural destruction
- cultural heritage
- Daesh
- décolonisation
- Decolonizing museums
- Devastation
- Epistemology
- ethnic cleansing
- Genocide
- Geopolitics
- Global cultural heritage
- Heritage
- Heritage destruction
- historical analysis
- History
- Illicit antiquities
- Imperial narratives
- Imperialism
- Iraq War
- ISIS
- Looting antiquities
- Memory
- Mesopotamia
- Middle East
- Military occupation
- Operation Iraqi Freedom
- Orientalism
- Post-disaster heritage preservation
- postcolonial theory
- Scholar activism
- thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1F Asia::1FB Middle East
- thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1F Asia::1FB Middle East::1FBQ Iraq
- thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MR 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100::3MRB Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050
- thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GL Library and information sciences / Museology::GLZ Museology and heritage studies
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world history
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHG Middle Eastern history
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHW Military history::NHWL Modern warfare
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHW Military history::NHWR Specific wars and campaigns::NHWR9 Military history: post-WW2 conflicts
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology::NKD Archaeology by period / region
- Trafficking antiquities
- UNESCO
- Zainab Bahrani
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