Building from scrap : war, recycling, and labor in Iraqi Kurdistan / / Umut Kuruüzüm

• Autore: Kuruüzüm Umut
• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (207 pages)
• Disciplina: 338.476284458095672
• Soggetto topico: Recycling industry; Iraq War, 2003-2011 - Destruction and pillage
• Soggetto geografico: Iraq Economic history; Kurdistan Destruction and pillage
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: War, Scrap, and Recycling -- Ethnographic Presence -- Seeing Capital Relationally in Iraqi Kurdistan -- Thinking War Scrap Dialectically -- The Rest of the Book -- Works Cited -- Chapter 2: Iraqi Kurdistan as a Capitalist Frontier -- From Rural Landscape into Capitalist Frontier -- Erecting Buildings, Erecting a State -- The Non-ticking Clock -- Kebab Connections -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3: The New Frontier of Scrap Recycling -- The Evolving Global Steel Industry -- The New Frontier of Scrap Metal -- Frontier Steel Mill -- Cultivating a Scrap Metal Yard -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 4: The War Economy of Scrap -- 'Moving' War Scrap -- Vicious Cycle of Grab -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 5: The Zone of Cheap Labor -- Non-Contract 'Refugee' Labor -- The Nonexistence of Contract -- Contract Labor -- The Existence of Contract -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 6: In Between Home and Labor Camp -- The Rolling Platform -- Rotation Scheme -- Leaving the Mill Behind -- Carrying Cash Back Home -- Never-Ending House -- The Wife Left Behind -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 7: In Search of a Place for Infected Bodies -- Dark Purple Spots -- Ruby, the Filipino Masseuse -- Having Sex for the First time -- Deportations of HIV Positive Noncitizens -- In Search of a Place -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Chapter 8: Thinking Through Class and Imagining a State on the Frontier -- Thinking Through Class -- Imagining a State on the Frontier -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Building from Scrap
• ISBN: 9783030922207; 9783030922191
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910574074103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II