Overview
- First comprehensive ethnographic analysis of Kurdish industrial capitalism
- Takes a relational, holistic, and historical materialist approach in documenting empirical market building
- Develops a theoretical model for the relationship between accumulation of cheap resources and statelessness
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book is about the flourishing scrap recycling industry, reconstruction, and state-making in Iraqi Kurdistan within the wider conditions of the war economy, ruination, and state disintegration in Iraq. Through a dialectical relationship between the afterlife and continuity of war over distinct but conjoined landscapes, it examines industrial work, labouring, and statelessness on a frontier territory near the self-proclaimed Islamic State (ISIS). By documenting the advance of the global steelmaking industry, the spread and erosion of selective state sovereignty, and the struggle of dispossessed workers, the book sketches the economic geography of a contemporary market expansion over the northeast of Iraq in a relational and dynamic way.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Umut Kuruüzüm is Assistant Professor of cultural economics at Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, who has been working on war economies, ruination, waste, recycling industries, and labor in the contemporary Middle East. He is a London School of Economics (MSc, PhD) trained economic anthropologist, and he is currently leading a research project on plastic pollution, toxicity, and the inequalities of climate change on the north-eastern Mediterranean coast.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Building from Scrap
Book Subtitle: War, Recycling, and Labor in Iraqi Kurdistan
Authors: Umut Kuruüzüm
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92220-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-92219-1Published: 25 May 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-92222-1Published: 25 May 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-92220-7Published: 24 May 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 203
Number of Illustrations: 28 illustrations in colour
Topics: Anthropology, Ethnography, Middle Eastern Culture, Development Studies