Hostage Spaces of the Contemporary Islamicate World - Phantom Territoriality

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.>

About the author

Dejan Lukic is Visiting Scholar, Institute of Comparative Literature and Society,Columbia University, USA.

Product details

• Authors: Dejan Lukiac, Dejan Lukic
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.05.2014
• EAN: 9781472570864
• ISBN: 978-1-4725-7086-4
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Suspensions: Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thought; Suspensions: Contemporary Midd; Suspensions: Contemporary Midd; Suspensions: Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thought
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; Bezug zum Islam und islamischen Gruppen, Terrorismus, bewaffneter Kampf