OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog)
Pencarian Koleksi UPA Perpustakaan
start it by typing one or more keywords for title, author or subject
‘‘Iraqnophobia’’: A Biomedical History of StateRearing and Shock Doctrine in Iraq
PICARD, Michael Hennessy - Personal Name
The history of Western foreign policy in the Middle East has long
assimilated Arab culture to sickness. Specifically, the biological episteme of
‘‘contamination’’ has shaped American foreign policy in the Gulf for decades. In so
doing, the US Government continually borrowed references from the natural sciences
to frame its foreign policy, leading some commentators to claim that biology
supplanted philosophy and religion as the primary political category. The article
analyses the semantics of Iraqnophobic metaphors, from the British experience of
‘‘nursing’’ Arabs at the close of the First World War to the recent ‘‘shock doctrine’’
of American therapists. First, the paper will concentrate its attention on the metaphors
of disinfection and surgical resection. Second, it will address the metaphors of
lustration, State-rearing and scientific recovery. Finally, it will explore Iraqis’
rebellion against their self-appointed tutors and doctors. Elaborating on the belligerents’
nursing and biomedical metaphors, the following pages address the life
cycle of foreign ‘‘legal transplantation’’, ‘‘antibody’’ resistance and ‘‘immunosuppressant’’
counterinsurgency in Iraq.
assimilated Arab culture to sickness. Specifically, the biological episteme of
‘‘contamination’’ has shaped American foreign policy in the Gulf for decades. In so
doing, the US Government continually borrowed references from the natural sciences
to frame its foreign policy, leading some commentators to claim that biology
supplanted philosophy and religion as the primary political category. The article
analyses the semantics of Iraqnophobic metaphors, from the British experience of
‘‘nursing’’ Arabs at the close of the First World War to the recent ‘‘shock doctrine’’
of American therapists. First, the paper will concentrate its attention on the metaphors
of disinfection and surgical resection. Second, it will address the metaphors of
lustration, State-rearing and scientific recovery. Finally, it will explore Iraqis’
rebellion against their self-appointed tutors and doctors. Elaborating on the belligerents’
nursing and biomedical metaphors, the following pages address the life
cycle of foreign ‘‘legal transplantation’’, ‘‘antibody’’ resistance and ‘‘immunosuppressant’’
counterinsurgency in Iraq.
Availability
| EB00000003904K | Available | ||
| EB00000003906K | Available |
Detail Information
Series Title
-
Call Number
-
Publisher
: ,
Collation
-
Language
ISBN/ISSN
-
Classification
NONE
Detail Information
Content Type
E-Jurnal
Media Type
-
Carrier Type
-
Edition
-
Specific Detail Info
-
Statement of Responsibility
Michael Hennessy Picard
No other version available
File Attachment
