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Volume 7, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 1751-2867
  • E-ISSN: 1751-2875

Abstract

Abstract

This article examines the phenomenon of ‘walling’ in Baghdad. I demonstrate how barrier walls and internal borders represent a politicized manifestation of what Anibal Quijano calls the ‘coloniality of power’ (Quijano 2000: 533) a highly racialized and power-inflected Euro-centered discourse of Otherness destined to create distinctions between Euro-American ‘civilization’ and ‘third world backwardness’. At the same time, I will also show how Iraqi writers and poets create resisting narratives that contest the walls of coloniality in an anti-occupation poetics. These writers also contest the sectarian and gender violence that results from physical and symbolic territorial demarcations destined to create a fragmented city and a violated national imaginary.

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2013-03-01
2024-11-13
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  • Article Type: Article
Keyword(s): coloniality; gender; identity; occupation; sectarian violence
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