The Politics of Conflict: Transubstantiatory Violence in Iraq PDF
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the politics of conflict This content downloaded from 58.246.118.137 on Mon, 19 Sep 2016 08:09:12 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms 26466_MGQ_Ingber.indd 1 2015-01-27 14:49:49 This content downloaded from 58.246.118.137 on Mon, 19 Sep 2016 08:09:12 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms 26466_MGQ_Ingber.indd 2 2015-01-27 14:49:50 The Politics of Conflict Transubstantiatory Violence in Iraq Monica Ingber McGill-Queen’s University Press Montreal & Kingston London Ithaca • • This content downloaded from 58.246.118.137 on Mon, 19 Sep 2016 08:09:12 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms 26466_MGQ_Ingber.indd 3 2015-01-27 14:49:50 © McGill-Queen’s University Press 2015 isbn 978-0-7735-4359-1 (cloth) isbn 978-0-7735-4360-7 (paper) isbn 978-0-7735-9204-9 (epdf) isbn 978-0-7735-9205-6 (epub) Legal deposit second quarter 2015 Bibliothèque nationale du Québec Printed in Canada on acid-free paper that is 100% ancient forest free (100% post-c onsumer recycled), processed chlorine free McGill-Queen’s University Press acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program. We also acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund for our publishing activities. Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Ingber, Monica, 1979–, author The politics of conflict: transubstantiatory violence in Iraq / Monica Ingber. Includes bibliographical references and index. Issued in print and electronic formats. isbn 978-0-7735-4359-1 (bound). – isbn 978-0-7735-4360-7 (pbk.). – isbn 978-0-7735-9204-9 (ePDF). – isbn 978-0-7735-9205-6 (ePUB) 1. Political violence – Iraq. 2. Social conflict – Iraq. 3. Iraq – Politics and government. I. Title. HN670.Z9V5 2014 303.609567 C 2014-904967-6 C2014-904968-4 This book was typeset by Interscript in 10.5/13 Sabon. This content downloaded from 58.246.118.137 on Mon, 19 Sep 2016 08:09:12 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms 26466_MGQ_Ingber.indd 4 2015-01-27 14:49:50 For my loved ones This content downloaded from 58.246.118.137 on Mon, 19 Sep 2016 08:09:12 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms 26466_MGQ_Ingber.indd 5 2015-01-27 14:49:50 This content downloaded from 58.246.118.137 on Mon, 19 Sep 2016 08:09:12 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms 26466_MGQ_Ingber.indd 6 2015-01-27 14:49:50 Contents Acknowledgments ix 1 Problematizing Chthonic Security: Iraq as a Site of Investigation 3 2 Transubstantiatory Violence 27 3 Hegemony and the State: Towards an Understanding of Social Complicity and Political Violence in Iraq 45 4 Chthonic Constitutions: Violence and Iraqi State-Formation 65 5 States of Tolerance: [Ideal]ology, Violence, and the Iraqi Communist Movement 103 6 Transubstantiatory Violence and the Militant / Multitude Problematic 127 7 Saddam in Furs: Social Complicity and Regime Violence 153 Afterword 176 Notes 183 Bibliography 209 Index 227 This content downloaded from 58.246.118.137 on Mon, 19 Sep 2016 08:09:13 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms 26466_MGQ_Ingber.indd 7 2015-02-11 15:34:58 This content downloaded from 58.246.118.137 on Mon, 19 Sep 2016 08:09:13 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms 26466_MGQ_Ingber.indd 8 2015-01-27 14:49:50 Acknowledgments Venus in Furs was first introduced to me as an academic text by Shannon Bell. I would like to thank Shannon for inspiring me to use Masoch’s work and for the time spent discussing the project, as well as reading and editing countless drafts of each chapter. I would like to thank Costas Constantinou, Bulent Gokay, Gad Horowitz, Cy Gonick, Barry Ryan, R.B.J. Walker, Michael Dillon, and Luis Lobo Guerroro for their feedback and tireless engagements with the text. I would like to extend my appreciation to my friends and colleagues Daniel Lowe, Rohee Dasgupta, Darrell Whitman, Christine Michael, Monique Chiotti, and L.J. Thompson for reading various chapters and contributing to their development through valued discussions. Grateful acknowledgement is made for the permission to use the following previously published material as part of the text: portions of chapter 3, “Hegemony and the State: Towards an Understanding of Social Complicity and Political Violence in Iraq,” first appeared in Cultural Practices, Political Possibilities, courtesy of Cambridge Scholars Publishing. I would like to thank the Dandelion Foundation for providing me with the necessary funding to complete the project, as well as Keele University for their generous bursary. I would also like to thank Michael Molavi for his assistance in helping me locate McGill-Queen’s University Press, Raan Matalon for his work on the index, the manuscript’s reviewers for their help- ful comments, and my editor Jacqueline Mason for believing in the project and for her hard work in helping me to bring the project to completion. 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