Hostage Spaces of the Contemporary Islamicate World: Phantom Territoriality
Ebook
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.
Gripping exposé of the act of hostage-taking, and of being a hostage, in the spheres of war and terrorism in post-communist geographies of global Islam.
Investigates a disconcerting 21st-century practice of kidnapping related to struggles and reactions of Muslims.
Questions the motivations of abducting 'enemies' for the purposes of ransom, terror or negotiation.
Reveals more conceptual workings of kidnappings in the political theology of the State.
Engages with the works of Aleksander Hemon, Ismail Kadare, Faisal Devji and Tala Asada.
Preface: Diagrammatic
Intensifications \ 1. "Being on the Lookout", the Animal \ 2. Biopotentiality
and the Enemy \ 3. Architectonics of Hostage-Space \ 4. The Movement of the
Black Stone \ 5. Delirium of Air \ 6. The New Weapon \ 7. Sovereign, Of the
Outside \ 8. Taking, Seizing, The Event \ 9. Cry, the Inhuman \ Bibliography \
Index
An extended and highly original meditation on the ambiguous figure of the hostage in modern life.
- Title: Hostage Spaces of the Contemporary Islamicate World: Phantom Territoriality
- Author: Dejan Lukic
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
- Print Publication Date: 2012
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781441137739, 9781472570864, 1472570863, 1441137734
- Resource ID: LLS:9781441137739
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-04-09T09:24:49Z
Dejan Lukic is Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Reed College, Oregon, USA.