Landscapes of Resistance

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Landscapes of Resistance is written by Benjamin Rassbach and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004711651 (ISBN 10) and 9789004711655 (ISBN 13).

On August 3, 2014, the Sinjar region of Northern Iraq was attacked by the “Islamic State”. Killing and abducting thousands, the jihadists also destroyed many of the religious minority’s shrines. Others, however, were defended by local fighters and groups affiliated with the PKK. In the aftermath of the genocide, stories of divine intervention into the defence bolstered land claims of serveral Kurdish political groups. Through extensive fieldwork in the region, I trace imaginaries of Sinjar as a landscape of resistance and a communal history of continuous persecution to current political disputes and attempts to construct a unified Yezidi identity.