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Body of Victim, Body of Warrior - Refugee Families and the Making of Kashmiri Jihadists

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Informationen zum Autor Cabeiri deBergh Robinson is Assistant Professor of International Studies & South Asian Studies at the Jackson School of International Studies! University of Washington. Klappentext " Body of Victim! Body of Warrior is an exceptional account of refugee populations and the making of mujahideen in Jammu and Kashmir. This book covers a great deal of contested historical ground! always with sensitivity and intelligence. Robinson's skilled ethnography is all the more persuasive in that her contemporary observations are grounded in a dense and revelatory political history." -Suvir Kaul! A.M. Rosenthal Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Zusammenfassung Looks at the creation of contemporary Muslim jihadists. Interweaving historical and ethnographic evidence, this book explains how refuge-seeking has become a socially and politically debased practice in the Kashmir region and why this devaluation has turned refugee men into potential militants. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Note on Names! Transliteration! and Photographs Preface: The Kashmir Dispute and the Conflicts Within Conflict Ethnography Acknowledgments Introduction: The Social Production of Jihad Part One Between Hijarat and Jihad in Azad Kashmir 1 ? Between War and Refuge in Jammu and Kashmir: Displacement! Borders! and the Boundaries of Political Belonging 2 Protective Migration and Armed Struggle: Political Violence and the Limits of Victimization in Islam Part Two The Historical Emergence of Kashmiri Refugees as Political Subjects 3 Forging Political Identities! 1947-1988: The South Asian Refugee Regime and Refugee Resettlement Villages 4 Transforming Political Identities! 1989-2001: Refugee Camps in Azad Jammu and Kashmir and the International Refugee Regime Part Three Body of Victim! Body of Warrior 5 Human Rights and Jihad: Victimization and the Sovereignty of the Body 6 The Mujahid as Family-Man: Sex! Death! and the Warrior's (Im)pure Body Conclusion: From Muhajir to Mujahid to Jihadi in the Global Order of Things Postscript: And! "Humanitarian Jihad" Notes Glossary Bibliography Index ...

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