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Author: Victoria Fontan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint: Praeger Publishers Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.510kg
ISBN: 9780313365324
ISBN 10: 0313365326
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 30 December 2008
Recommended Age: From 7 to 17 years
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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General/trade
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
Among the numerous books on the Iraq conflict to appear in recent years, Fontan's stands out because of the range of perspectives she brings to bear to illuminate her subject: she brings a journalist's ear for compelling stories, a scholar's analytical tools that provide these stories with meaning, and an activist's passion for the human beings at the heart of her writing. By studying the Iraq intervention through a psychological and cultural framework, and by focusing on the effects of humiliation across the political and social landscape of Iraq, her work serves as a vital reminder that what really matters in cases like this is how the intervention is perceived by the population of the target state, no matter how well-intentioned the intervention might be. -Dr. Scott A. Silverstone, Ph.D., Associate Professor of International Relations, Director, International Relations Program, Department of Social Sciences, United States Military Academy
Fontan (peace and conflict studies, U. for Peace, Costa Rica) has worked as a freelance journalist in Iraq writing for Western and Iraqi media. Seeking to avoid condemning or condoning occupiers or occupied, liberators or liberated, she argues that primary factor ruling the people of Iraq since the arrival of the US military is humiliation. Her topics include insurgency, the Sunnis, and humiliation's role; Abu Ghraib as a source of ethno-religious unrest; the gender factor and how it may hold keys to peace; and a new role for the US in post-Saddam Iraq. - Reference & Research Book News
Author Information
Victoria Fontan is Director of Academic Development and Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, at the United Nations-mandated University for Peace in San Jose, Costa Rica. Prior to this appointment, she was a Fellow to the Iraq Project at the Center for International Conflict Resolution at Columbia University. As a freelance journalist, Fontan has worked in Iraq for Deutsche Welle Radio and Television, for the Baghdad Bulletin, and for The Independent, based in the United Kingdom. Her many roles have also included serving as Research Fellow at Sabanci University in Turkey, Research Associate at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon, and Visiting Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Colgate University in New York.
