Building from scrap : war, recycling, and labor in Iraqi Kurdistan / Umut Kuruüzüm.
Kuruüzüm, Umut, author.
2022
HD9975.I72
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Title Building from scrap : war, recycling, and labor in Iraqi Kurdistan / Umut Kuruüzüm.
Author Kuruüzüm, Umut, author.
ISBN 9783030922207 (electronic bk.)
3030922200 (electronic bk.)
9783030922191
3030922197
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92220-7
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-92220-7 doi
Call Number HD9975.I72
Dewey Decimal Classification 338.476284458095672
Summary 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. Umut Kuruuzum 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. .
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Chapter 1: Relating Capital in Iraqi Kurdistan
Chapter 2: Industrial Conversion
Chapter 3: Recycling War Scrap
Chapter 4: Reconstructing Iraqi Kurdistan
Chapter 5: Capitalization of Migrants
Chapter 6: Relating Insecurities
Chapter 7: Uneven Independence.

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