The Second-Generation Liberation Movement in Southern Sudan: Anti-Colonialism as a Set of Practices

Voller, Yaniv

doi:10.1080/13698249.2019.1572286

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“…The early debate on colonialism and Kurdistan ranges from the assertion that "Kurdistan is not even a colony" referring to the absence of an official status of colony, to the argument that it is an "international colony" (Beşikçi, 1991). Similar observations persist such as in the conceptualisation of second-generation liberation movements (e.g., Voller, 2022). Typically, the location of this debate is within the framework of "internal colonialism" (e.g., Kurt, 2019), which nonetheless paradoxically reinforces the colonial borders of those states by analytically construing the Kurdish question as the internal matter of singular states.…”

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Colonial continuities in the Kurdish liberation

Sunca

2023

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This commentary seeks to examine the extent to which Kurdish liberation projects are free from the global colonial continuities. While the discussion on colonialism and Kurdistan typically centres on the Kurds’ relationships with their immediate colonisers, it obscures at least two forms of colonial continuities in Kurdish liberation projects. A decolonial perspective built on the coloniality concept enables these colonial continuities. Firstly, the manifestation of politico-tribal domination in Başûr (South Kurdistan, Iraq) is a common feature of postcolonial states that perpetuates the originally colonial power relations within internal structures. Secondly, the Rojava (West Kurdistan, Syria) revolution, which, despite its extensive criticism of orientalism, inadvertently reproduces the frustration of Rojava’s people arising from the feeling of abandonment, by equating “we fight for humanity” with “we fight for Western values.” The reproduction of internal coloniality and Western superiority are, I argue, inextricably linked to the colonial nature of modern power.

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Section: Colonialism and Kurdistanmentioning

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Colonial continuities in the Kurdish liberation

Sunca

2023

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Pox and Proximities

Farhan

2023

Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East

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This article conceptualizes Iraq's medical diplomatic missions as inter-Asian linkages that rested on solidarity movements, professional networks, and the commitments of medical experts. It traces the machinations of Iraq's medical diplomacy, specifically the agendas and processes of advancing health care as humanitarian aid at a time when social unrest and outbreaks of infectious diseases led to mass inoculation and biosurveillance programs supported by regional and international medical missions. The emergence of semi-trained inoculators coupled with efforts to expand medical education faculties prompted the increase of medical labor production for both domestic and diplomatic purposes. Iraq's Cold War medical diplomacy was prismatic, multilateral and multidirectional. The dispensation and reception of biological protection, scientific technologies, and medical labor transformed Iraq into a site of biomedical knowledge production.

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The North Iraq Dataset (NIDS) files: Northern Iraq under Baʿthist rule, 1968–911

Sassoon

Brill

2020

Journal of Contemporary Iraq &Amp; The Arab World

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The first archival collection from Saddam Hussein’s regime to receive the attention of researchers in the early 1990s was the large number of documents secured by Iraqi Kurdish rebels in the March 1991 uprising. The documents have been referred to variously as the Iraqi secret police files, the Anfal files, the North Iraq records, and are today known as the North Iraq Dataset (NIDS). In addition to being the first of several collections of Bath-era documents removed from Iraq by the US military as a result of the 1991 and 2003 wars, the NIDS was also the first collection returned to the country by the US government in 2005. This article discusses the history of the NIDS, the contents of the archive, efforts to digitize and study the documents, along with investigating the fate of the original records.

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The Second-Generation Liberation Movement in Southern Sudan: Anti-Colonialism as a Set of Practices

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Cited by 3 publications

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Colonial continuities in the Kurdish liberation

Colonial continuities in the Kurdish liberation

Pox and Proximities

The North Iraq Dataset (NIDS) files: Northern Iraq under Baʿthist rule, 1968–911

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