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Traitors : suspicion, intimacy, and the ethics of state-building / edited by Sharika Thiranagama and Tobias Kelly.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thiranagama, Sharika
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Traitors--Cross-cultural studies.
- Traitors.
- Treason--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Treason.
- Treason--Cross-cultural studies.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Cross-cultural studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 272 pages :) : illustrations
- Other Title:
- Penn Press e-books.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2010]
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Summary:
- Why do people invest so much emotional energy and resources in conflicts over images, symbols, rituals, and other cultural expressions? The answers explored in Culture and Belonging in Divided Societies view such expressions as barriers to or opportunities for inclusion in a divided society's symbolic landscape and political life.
- Contents:
- Xiconhoca: Mozambique's ubiquitous post-independence traitor / Lars Buur
- Denunciatory practices and the constitutive role of collaboration in the Bangladesh War / Nayanika Mookherjee
- Intimacy, loyalty, and state formation: the specter of the "anti-national" / Richard W. Whitecross
- Traitors, terror, and regime consolidation on the two sides of the Taiwan straits: "revolutionaries" and "reactionaries" from 1949 to 1956 / Julia C. Strauss
- Betraying trust and the elusive nature of ethnicity in Burundi / Simon Turner
- In praise of traitors: intimacy, betrayal, and the Sri Lankan Tamil community / Sharika Thiranagama
- Treason and contested moralities in a coloured township, Cape Town / Steffen Jensen
- In a treacherous state: the fear of collaboration among West Bank Palestinians / Tobias Kelly
- The glass agency: Iranian war veterans as heroes or traitors? / Kamran Rastegar
- The man in the white raincoat: betrayal and the historian's task / István Rev
- Afterword: questions of judgment / Stephan Feuchtwang.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780812205893
- 0812205898
- OCLC:
- 793341718
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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