Landscapes of resistance: narratives around sacred places in Sinjar (Iraq) and the Islamic state's genocide against Yezidis
"On August 3, 2014, the Sinjar region of Northern Iraq was attacked by the "Islamic State". Killing and abducting thousands, the jihadists also destroyed many of the religious minority's shrines. Others, however, were defended by local fighters and groups affiliated with the PKK....
| Summary: | "On August 3, 2014, the Sinjar region of Northern Iraq was attacked by the "Islamic State". Killing and abducting thousands, the jihadists also destroyed many of the religious minority's shrines. Others, however, were defended by local fighters and groups affiliated with the PKK. In the aftermath of the genocide, stories of divine intervention into the defence bolstered land claims of several Kurdish political groups. Through extensive fieldwork in the region, I trace imaginaries of Sinjar as a landscape of resistance and a communal history of continuous persecution to current political disputes and attempts to construct a unified Yezidi identity"-- Kurdish Territories, Yezidi Landscapes -- Visiting the Holy Beings in Their Places -- Yezidi Sacred Places and Communal Memory -- Sinjar : a Landscape of Miracles and Contention -- Symbolic Order and Spatialised Narratives of Conflict -- Yezidi Shrines, Social Formations and the Consolidation of Identity -- The Miracle of Şerfedîn -- Mezarê Şehidên -- Monuments, Martyrs and "the PKK" in Sinjar 3. |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | XIX, 385 Seiten, Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 978-90-04-71164-8 |
