This volume examines political, ethnic, and personal trust and betrayals in modern times from Mozambique to the Taiwan Straits, from the former Eastern Bloc to the West Bank, revealing that treachery is a constant and essential part of the processes through which social and political order is reproduced.
This volume examines political, ethnic, and personal trust and betrayals in modern times from Mozambique to the Taiwan Straits, from the former Eastern Bloc to the West Bank, revealing that treachery is a constant and essential part of the processes through which social and political order is reproduced.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Sharika Thiranagama teaches anthropology at the New School for Social Research in New York and is author of In My Mother's House: The Intimacy of War in Sri Lanka, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Tobias Kelly is Senior Lecturer in social anthropology at the University of Edinburgh and author of This Side of Silence: Human Rights, Torture, and the Recognition of Cruelty, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
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Introduction: Specters of Treason 1 Xiconhoca: Mozambique's Ubiquitous Post-Independence Traitor -Lars Buur 2 Denunciatory Practices and the Constitutive Role of Collaboration in the Bangladesh War -Nayanika Mookherjee 3 Intimacy, Loyalty, and State Formation: The Specter of the ''Anti-National'' -Richard W. Whitecross 4 Traitors, Terror, and Regime Consolidation on the Two Sides of the Taiwan Straits: ''Revolutionaries'' and ''Reactionaries'' from 1949 to 1956 -Julia C. Strauss 5 Betraying Trust and the Elusive Nature of Ethnicity in Burundi -Simon Turner 6 In Praise of Traitors: Intimacy, Betrayal, and the Sri Lankan Tamil Community -Sharika Thiranagama 7 Treason and Contested Moralities in a Coloured Township, Cape Town -Steffen Jensen 8 In a Treacherous State: The Fear of Collaboration Among West Bank Palestinians -Tobias Kelly 9 The Glass Agency: Iranian War Veterans as Heroes or Traitors? -Kamran Rastegar 10 The Man in the White Raincoat: Betrayal and the Historian's Task -Istva´n Re´v Afterword: Questions of Judgment -Stephan Feuchtwang Notes Bibliography List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments
Introduction: Specters of Treason 1 Xiconhoca: Mozambique's Ubiquitous Post-Independence Traitor -Lars Buur 2 Denunciatory Practices and the Constitutive Role of Collaboration in the Bangladesh War -Nayanika Mookherjee 3 Intimacy, Loyalty, and State Formation: The Specter of the ''Anti-National'' -Richard W. Whitecross 4 Traitors, Terror, and Regime Consolidation on the Two Sides of the Taiwan Straits: ''Revolutionaries'' and ''Reactionaries'' from 1949 to 1956 -Julia C. Strauss 5 Betraying Trust and the Elusive Nature of Ethnicity in Burundi -Simon Turner 6 In Praise of Traitors: Intimacy, Betrayal, and the Sri Lankan Tamil Community -Sharika Thiranagama 7 Treason and Contested Moralities in a Coloured Township, Cape Town -Steffen Jensen 8 In a Treacherous State: The Fear of Collaboration Among West Bank Palestinians -Tobias Kelly 9 The Glass Agency: Iranian War Veterans as Heroes or Traitors? -Kamran Rastegar 10 The Man in the White Raincoat: Betrayal and the Historian's Task -Istva´n Re´v Afterword: Questions of Judgment -Stephan Feuchtwang Notes Bibliography List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments
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