Hostage Spaces of the Contemporary Islamicate World - Phantom Territoriality (Paperback, Nippod)

How is hostage space constructed? In this age-long procedure found in conflicts around the world, strange forms of terror and intimacy arise, particularly in the contemporary Islamic cultures of Chechnya, Albania, and Bosnia. This book investigates the modes of desire and politics found in kidnapping, in order to reveal the voices of victims and kidnappers that often remain closed up. Dejan Lukic explores the spaces where hostages and hostage takers come into contact - spaces of accident, sacrifice, hope, and catastrophe - or, in other words, the spaces that announce utopias bound to fail. In this book, the figures of the victim, the terrorist, the sovereign, the resistance fighter and the witness - among others - emerge with a new face; one that will contribute to our understandings of what it means to act politically and ethically today.

General

Imprint:	Bloomsbury Academic
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Suspensions: Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thought
Release date:	May 2014
First published:	May 2014
Authors:	Dejan Lukic
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	208
Edition:	Nippod
ISBN-13:	978-1-4725-7086-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Islamic studies Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > Terrorism, freedom fighters, armed struggle > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4725-7086-3
Barcode:	9781472570864

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