Illustrations

Acknowledgment

List of Abbreviations

Notes on Translation

Introduction

1 Background: A Brief History of The Kurds

PART I Conceptualization of Genocide Culture

2 Introduction to Genocide Culture: Genocide Culture, Civilian Actors, Ethnic Engineering

3 Stimulation of Genocide Culture: Tribalism, Leader Syndrome, and 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, and Deistic Ideology

7 Distinction of Genocide Culture from Cultural Genocide: Culture Kills Culture, Acculturation, and Bottom-Up Cascade

PART II Contextualization of Genocide Culture

8 The Institutionalization of Ba’athism and the Ba’athification of Institutions: Institutionalized Genocide Culture, Autopoietic Self-Reproducing, and Militarized Society

9 Genocide Culture via Linguicide: Language Education Policy, Saddamist State, and Death of Linguistic Capital

10 Genocide Culture in Assimilative Education: The Elimination of Illiteracy, the Ba’athification and Militarization of Education, and Identification Numbering Policy

11 Genocide Culture in the Context of Land Destruction and Demographic Engineering: Confiscation, Demographic Destruction, and Legalization of Illegal Actions

12 Conclusion

Index