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Hostage Spaces of the Contemporary Islamicate World: Phantom Territoriality

Hostage Spaces of the Contemporary Islamicate World: Phantom Territoriality

Lukic, Dejan
Mohaghegh, Jason Bahbak
Stone, Lucian

Hardcover

Series: Suspensions: Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thou

Religion General IslamTrue Crime

ISBN10: 1441194843
ISBN13: 9781441194848
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Mar 14 2013
Pages: 208
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

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.

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