Toxic War and the Politics of Uncertainty in Iraq

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8969487
AutoresToby Craig Jones (University of New Brunswick, autor de correspondencia)
Año2014
Volumen46
Número4
Páginas797-799
Fecha de publicación2014-10-09
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0020743814001123
OpenAlexW2128443277
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas5

The long American war on Iraq is not over. In a country ravaged for more than two decades by crippling sanctions and military occupation, the social, cultural, and political-economic legacies of war seem unending. Perhaps even more disturbing, Iraqis now face widespread environmental destruction and a dystopian environmental future. The ecological wages of America's long war in Iraq are partly the consequence of “routine” violence, resulting from the systemic destruction of vital electrical, water, and sewage infrastructure over two decades. It is possible to imagine that Iraq's cities and villages can be rebuilt. But even if it finds its way to the kind of political accommodation that makes reconstruction possible, parts of the country face other pernicious long-term environmental threats, among the most dangerous being the hidden toxic and radiological dangers that have settled in Iraqi bodies and deep in its landscape

Development economics · Dystopia · Economic sanctions · Economics · Face (sociological concept · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sanctions · Social science · Sociology · Health and Conflict Studies · History · Law · Mercury impact and mitigation studies · Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact