Terrorism in Question crafts a political anthropology of post-9/11 "new terrorism" by investigating who needs the category of terrorists and offering a global framework to understand anthropology, Islam and terrorism. In contrast to their depiction as antimodern, barbarian and fanatic, this study theorizes "Muslim terrorists" as radical friends of equality and visionaries of an unrecognized ethical politics. Marshalling fieldwork with media practitioners and refugees, participant observation of counterterrorism conferences in India and Oslo, and encounters with terrorists, it reorients anthropology to elevate its public voice. This book shows how fieldwork, poetry and political theory come together to exemplify decolonized knowledge.
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Theology & ReligionSubtopic
Religion, Politics & StateTable of contents
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Note to Readers
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- Chapter 1 — The Argument vis-à-vis the Doxa
- Chapter 2 — What Might an Anthropology of Terrorism Look Like?
- Chapter 3 — Injustice and the New World Order: An Alternative Perspective on Terrorism
- Chapter 4 — Kafka in India: Terrorism, Media, Muslims
- Chapter 5 — Riot, Pogrom, Terror: Another Theory of “Religious” Violence
- Chapter 6 — Ethnic Democracy: Facing the Terror of Counterterrorism Agencies
- Chapter 7 — Epistemic Whitewash: Ethnography of a UNDP Conference on Counterterrorism
- Chapter 8 — The Truth about Terrorism: The True in Fiction
- Anticonclusion
- Appendix: Doing Public Anthropology in the Era of the Global War on Terror
- Bibliography
- Index
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