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Re-Claiming Babylon: Epistemic Violence and Rhetorical Sovereignty in Iraq Discourse
Re-Claiming Babylon: Epistemic Violence and Rhetorical Sovereignty in Iraq Discourse 14th May 2024 “What people of color quickly come to see…is that they are not seen at all” (Mills, 2017, 54). For two decades after the U.S.-led invasion, White people have been dominating English-language discourse on Iraq. Despite effort by some Iraqis... Read More
Social Theory: bell hooks
Social Theory: bell hooks 6th Dec 2022 Now when I ponder the silences, the voices that are not heard, the voices of those wounded and/or oppressed individuals who do not speak or write, I contemplate the acts of persecution, torture—the terrorism that breaks spirits, that makes creativity... Read More
Social Theory: Edward Saïd
Social Theory: Edward Saïd 12th Oct 2022 In order to wage our struggle [“against the whole system of confinement, dispossession, exploitation and oppression that still holds us down”], we must first feel our chains, then we must understand them, then we must break them. And we... Read More
Writing Critical Race Theory into Desectarianization Discourse: Between State Repression and Free Speech in Iraq
Writing Critical Race Theory into Desectarianization Discourse: Between State Repression and Free Speech in Iraq 17th Jun 2022 “In Iraq, talk about muhasassa ta’ifiyya is nothing but a lie. In reality, there is party-based muhasassa under the guise of representation. […] The state is the responsibility of all state institutions—the executive, legislative, and... Read More
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