The archive as an artefact of conflict
The North Iraq Dataset
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5681544 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rebecca Abby Whiting (0000-0002-7708-3604) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 435-449 |
| Publication date | 2021-10-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Military Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2333-7486 • E-ISSN: 2333-7494 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/23337486.2019.1691409 |
| OpenAlex | W2982789454 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 12 |
An uprising in the Kurdish regions of northern Iraq in 1991 against the rule of the central government led to the overthrow of the Baʿth regime’s institutions. During the revolt, members of the public and of Kurdish political groups seized large amounts of official records. The regime responded to the revolt brutally and retook the regions within three weeks. However, the records, the bulk of which were created by the government’s security offices, had been hidden away. In the following two years, Kurdish groups reached agreements with the United States government and an international non-governmental organization to ship the records to the US, where they were formed into an archive. Approaching the archive as a site of political struggle, this paper explores how the capture, movement and de-territorialization of the records have shaped the archive. The trajectory of the records illustrates the ways in which their value and potential uses shifted within new socio-political contexts that emerged as a result of the conflict
Geography · Government (linguistics · Historical record · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Archaeological Research and Protection · Digital and Traditional Archives Management · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis · Law · Public Administration
| Citations per year | 0.83 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |