Illustrations

Acknowledgment

List of Abbreviations

Notes on Translation

Introduction

1: Background: A Brief History of The Kurds

PART ONE

CONCEPTUALIZATION OF GENOCIDE

2: Introduction to Genocide Culture

Genocide culture, Civilian actors, Ethnic engineering

3: Stimulation of Genocide Culture

Tribalism, leader syndrome, structuration of public and private spheres

4: The Inception of Genocide Culture

Pre-Existing Culture, Moral Panic, and Iraqi Doxa

5: The Evolution of Genocide Culture

Pan-Arab Nationalism, Sociopolitical Violence, and the Orientalization of the Outfield

6: The Manifestation of Genocide Culture

Religious Doxa, Religio-Cultural Habitus, Deistic Ideology

7: Distinction of Genocide Culture from Cultural Genocide

Culture Kills Culture; Acculturation; Bottom-Up Cascade

PART TWO

CONTEXTUALIZATION OF GENOCIDE

8: The Institutionalization of Ba’athism, The Ba’athification Of Institutions

Institutionalized Genocide Culture, Autopoietic Self-Reproducing, Militarized Society

9: Genocide Culture Via Linguicide

Language Education Policy, Saddamist State, Death of linguistic capital

10: Genocide Culture in Assimilative Education

The Elimination of Illiteracy, The Ba’athification & Militarization of Education, Identification Numbering Policy

11: Genocide Culture in Genocide of the Land, and Demographic Engineering

Confiscation, Demographic Destruction, legalization of illegal actions.

12: Conclusion

Index