"Analyzing the role of rhetoric and ideology in the western 'war on terror' and Islamic 'jihad' in the aftermath of 9/11, Gabriele Marranci shows that we are not experiencing a 'clash of civilizations' but a clash among 'civilizers' who believe they have the power to define how …
This volume explores the evolutionary context of terrorism and political violence. It will be of interest to students of terrorism and political violence, psychology, criminology and security studies.
"This book examines the role of collective violence in the achievement of solidarity, shedding light on the difficulty faced by sociology in theorizing violence and warfare as a result of the disciplines tendency to idealize society in an attempt to legitimize the idea of progre…
This book addresses two developments in the conceptualisation of citizenship that arise from the "war on terror", namely the re-culturalisation of membership in a polity and the re-moralisation of access to rights. Taking an anthropological perspective, it traces the ways in whi…
"This book addresses two developments in the conceptualisation of citizenship that arise from the 'war on terror'; namely the re-culturalisation of membership in a polity and the remoralisation of access to rights. Taking an anthropological perspective, it traces the ways in whi…
"This book addresses two developments in the conceptualisation of citizenship that arise from the 'war on terror'; namely the re-culturalisation of membership in a polity and the remoralisation of access to rights. Taking an anthropological perspective, it traces the ways in whi…
Puar argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, nation, class and ethnicity are realigning in relation to contemporary forces of securitization, counterterrorism, and nationalism, and examines how liberal politics serve to incorporate certain queer subjects into the …
Introduction : homonationalism and biopolitics -- The sexuality of terrorism -- Abu Ghraib and U.S. sexual exceptionalism -- Intimate control, infinite detention : rereading the Lawrence case -- "The turban is not a hat" : queer diaspora and practices of profiling -- Conclusion …
by Project Muse, Puar, Jasbir K.
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A critical analysis of contemporary racial and sexual politics involved in post-9/11 laws and culture, where practices of liberal tolerance and the inclusion of gay, lesbian, homosexual, and queer subjects into the nation-state have developed into a type.
A critical analysis of contemporary racial and sexual politics involved in post-9/11 laws and culture, where practices of liberal tolerance and the inclusion of gay, lesbian, homosexual, and queer subjects into the nation-state have developed into a type.
Puar argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, nation, class and ethnicity are realigning in relation to contemporary forces of securitization, counterterrorism, and nationalism, and examines how liberal politics serve to incorporate certain queer subjects into the …
