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"Being Human: Genocide and Hospitality in Kurdistan-Iraq examines the Iraqi Ba'th state and the al-Anfal operations as one of the twentieth century's ultimate acts of the destruction of humanity. It remains the first and only crime of state in the Middle East to be tried under the 1948 UN Genocide Convention, the 1950 Nuremberg Principles, and the 1969 Iraqi Penal Code, and to be recognized as genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes in Baghdad between 2006-2007. Being Human gathers together social sciences, humanities, and the arts to understand modern state violence and its afterlife. It is a work of anthropological hospitality, returning to the violence of political modernity only to turn to human survivors' hospitality, infinite pursuit of justice, and acts of translation-testimonial narratives, law, politics, archive, poetry, artworks, museums, memorial and symbolic cemeteries in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq"--

The Iraqi Baʿth state's Anfāl operations (1987-1991) is one of the twentieth century's ultimate acts of destruction of the possibility of being human. It remains the first and only crime of state in the Middle East to be tried under the 1948 UN Genocide Convention, the 1950 Nuremberg Principles, and the 1969 Iraqi Penal Code and to be recognized as genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes in Baghdad between 2006 and 2007. Being Human: Political Modernity and Hospitality in Kurdistan-Iraq offers an unprecedented pathway to the study of political violence. It is a sweeping work of anthropological hospitality, returning to the Anfāl operations as the violence of political modernity only to turn to the human survivors' hospitality and acts of translation-testimonial narratives, law, politics, archive, poetry, artworks, museums, memorials, symbolic cemeteries, and infinite pursuit of justice in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Being Human gathers together social sciences, humanities, and the arts to understand modernity's violence and its living on

AbstractThis article is a transdisciplinary inquiry into catastrophic art—artworks whose worlds the empires destroyed and brutally deported to the imperial metropoles. At issue is the impossibility of seeing and speaking of catastrophic art, without at the same time speaking of both systems of knowledge and life forms and of the colonial inheritance and epistemicide. The article follows various historical events, such as Léopold Sédar Senghor's encounter with African art in Paris after World War I and the British colonial destruction of the Kingdom of Benin in 1897; turns to a conference held at the Ethnological Museum in Berlin in 2018; and disturbs Emmanuel Macron's 2017 speech at the University of Ouagadougou and the 2018 French presidential report on restitution. It shows how provenance exhibits epistemicide as it restitutes "looted" art to colonial beneficiaries, and how the incalculability of catastrophic art is to be found in hospitality.

En este artículo se analiza cómo el Estado moderno y colonial se conforma a través de formas específicas de escritura (la Constitución, las leyes, los decretos, los comunicados, la violencia burocratizada) las cuales, instantáneamente, convierten al Estado en genocida y femicida. Los escritos políticos son tanto históricos como contemporáneos ya que, al desplazarse a través del tiempo y del espacio, cruzan fronteras, forjan programas y políticas de Estado que hacen del genocidio y del femicidio algo irreductible a consideraciones antropocéntricas. En este sentido, el artículo sostiene que los escritos políticos transforman los contextos que describen. Dichos escritos son inherentes al Estado nación y a su insaciable propósito de dominación y destrucción sistemática de las condiciones ecológicas y formas de vida, así como necesarios para traducir y probar la violencia política y estatal moderna. Con un enfoque interdisciplinar, el artículo demuestra cómo la violencia de género (violencia sexual), el secuestro y la trata de mujeres se convirtieron en los temas de escritura del Estado iraquí. Al final, se plantea una discusión sobre el silenciamiento infinito de la violencia genocida en Irak, caracterizada por tres décadas de impunidad ante la violencia sexual y los secuestros de mujeres durante la Operación al-Anfal, de los recientes genocidios y femicidios y de cómo después de tres décadas de violencia sexual ejercida en al-Anfal, de violaciones y de secuestros de mujeres, junto con el genocidio y el femicidio del Estado Islámico contra los yazidíes, todo acto genocida continúa infinitamente silenciado en Irak.

This paper critically examines the Islamic State's annihilatory violence committed against the Êzîdîs in Iraq since 2014. It argues that the violence is a product of both Êzîdî marginality and the ideology of the Islamic State, which is grounded in its particular neo-historical iteration of Islam. Annihilatory violence is fundamental for the IS to actualize its iteration of the holy Qur'ān, the words and actions of the Islamic prophet, and historical events, dividing the world into binaries of the Abode of Islam and the Abode of War, or good and evil. It draws from anthropological research and interviews conducted by the authors with survivors and perpetrators in 2014 and 2016 to argue that the Islamic State's campaign against the Êzîdîs constitutes the subjective and objective elements of the crime of genocide.

1. Intimate interrogations : the literary grammar of communal violence / Christi Merrill -- 2. Oral performers and memory of mass violence : dynamics of collective and individual remembering / Laury Ocen -- 3. Parallel readings : narratives of violence / Eva Kovacs -- 4. Genocide in translation : on memory, remembrance, and politics of the future / Fazil Moradi -- 5. Remembering the poison gas attack on Halabja : questions of representations in the emergence of memory on genocide / Maria Six-Hohenbalken -- 6. Afterlives of genocide : return of human bodies from Berlin to Windhoek, 2011 / Memory Biwa -- 7. Communicating the unthinkable : a psychodynamic perspective / Ivana Macek -- 8. Between Nakba, Shoah, and apartheid : notes on a film from the interstices / Heidi Grunebaum -- 9. The rethinking of remembering : who lays claim to speech in the wake of catastrophe? / Rachmi Diyah Larasati -- 10. Field, forum, and vilified art : recent developments in the representation of mass violence and its remembrance / Ralph Buchenhorst.

Part One: State Violence, Gender, and Resistance. - 1. Subaltern Bodies: Gender Violence, Sexual Torture, and Political Repression during the Greek Military Dictatorship (1967-1974). - Katerina Stefatos. - 2. Sexual Violence as a Weapon during the Guatemalan Genocide. - Victoria Sanford, Sofia Duyos-Álvarez, and Kathleen Dill. - 3. Gender, Incarceration and Power Relations during the Irish Civil War (1922-1923). - Laura McAtackney. - 4. Resistance and Activism against State Violence in Chiapas, Mexico. - Melanie Hoewer. - Part Two: The Continuum of Sexual Violence and the Role of the State. - 5. Medical Record Review and Evidence of Mass Rape during the 2007/2008 Period of Post-Election Violence in Kenya. - Mike Anastario. - 6. The Force of Writing in Genocide: On Sexual Violence in the al-Anfal Operations and Beyond. - Fazil Moradi. - 7. Sexualized Bodies, Public Mutilation, and Torture at the Beginning of Indonesia's New Order Regime (1965-66). - Annie Pohlman. - Part Three: State Responses to Gender Violence. - 8. Advances and Limits of Policing and Human Security for Women: Nicaragua in Comparative Perspective . - Shannon Drysdale Walsh. - 9. The State to the Rescue? The Contested Terrain of Domestic Violence in Post-Communist Russia. - Maija Jäppinen and Janet Elise Johnson. - 10. The Absent State: Teen Mothers and New Patriarchal Forms of Gender Subordination . - Serena Cosgrove. - 11. Anti-Trafficking Legislation, Gender Violence, and the State. - Cecilia M. Salvi. - Conclusion: Sex at the Security Council: Reflections on the Women, Peace and Security Agenda. - Kimberly Theidon