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Violence on Iraqi bodies: decolonising economic sanctions in security studies

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  • Mariam Georgis
  • Riva Gewarges

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United Nations agencies report that by 1998, Iraqi infant mortality had risen from the pre-Gulf War rate of 3.7% to 12%. Insufficient food and medical supplies and deterioration of sewage and sanitation systems and electrical power systems reportedly caused an increase of 40,000 deaths annually of children under the age of 5 and of 50,000 deaths annually of older Iraqis. Why is this violence on Iraqis absent from analyses of sanctions in international relations and security studies? This paper is concerned with, first, situating sanctions against the Global South as violence by challenging the conventional theorisation of violence inflicted by the hegemon as a mechanism of ‘national security’. Second, we offer a decolonial reading of the sanctions imposed on Iraq by shifting the locus of enunciation from the state to Iraqi people’s suffering.

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  • Mariam Georgis & Riva Gewarges, 2019. "Violence on Iraqi bodies: decolonising economic sanctions in security studies," Third World Quarterly, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 40(2), pages 317-336, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ctwqxx:v:40:y:2019:i:2:p:317-336
    DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2018.1541735
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