Watching Saddam Fall: Assyrian Refugees in Sydney and the Imagining of a New Iraq
Author: Greg Gow
Publisher/Publication: The International Journal of Social and Cultural Practice
Volume/Issue: 48(3)
DOI/ISBN: 10.3167/015597704782352294
The article discusses the imagining of the war and the U.S. led occupation of Iraq among Iraqi-born Assyrian refugees living in Sydney, introducing theoretical notions about transnationalism. The analysis is centered around the way through which Assyrians are relating to the conflict to the 2003 war as an affective social dynamic and the idea of 'transnational imaginaries' produced through the intersection of specific embodied practices, implicit self-understandings.
