Body of victim, body of warrior : refugee families and the making of Kashmiri jihadists / Cabeiri deBergh Robinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robinson, Cabeiri deBergh.

Series:

South Asia Across the Disciplines

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam and politics--Pakistan--Azad Kashmir.

Jihad.

Kashmiri (South Asian people)--Pakistan--Azad Kashmir.

Refugees--India--Jammu and Kashmir.

Refugees--Pakistan--Azad Kashmir.

Religious militants--Pakistan--Azad Kashmir.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Refugee families and the making of Kashmiri jihadists

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book provides a fascinating look at the creation of contemporary Muslim jihadists. Basing the book on her long-term fieldwork in the disputed borderlands between Pakistan and India, Cabeiri deBergh Robinson tells the stories of people whose lives and families have been shaped by a long history of political conflict. Interweaving historical and ethnographic evidence, Robinson 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. She reveals the fraught social processes by which individuals and families produce and maintain a modern jihad, and she shows how Muslim refugees have forged an Islamic notion of rights-a hybrid of global political ideals that adopts the language of human rights and humanitarianism as a means to rethink refugees' positions in transnational communities. Jihad is no longer seen as a collective fight for the sovereignty of the Islamic polity, but instead as a personal struggle to establish the security of Muslim bodies against political violence, torture, and rape. Robinson describes how this new understanding has contributed to the popularization of jihad in the Kashmir region, decentered religious institutions as regulators of jihad in practice, and turned the families of refugee youths into the ultimate mediators of entrance into militant organizations. This provocative book challenges the idea that extremism in modern Muslim societies is the natural by-product of a clash of civilizations, of a universal Islamist ideology, or of fundamentalist conversion.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

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 Jihād

ONE. Between War and Refuge in Jammu and Kashmir. Displacement, Borders, and the Boundaries of Political Belonging

TWO. Protective Migration and Armed Struggle. Political Violence and the Limits of Victimization in Islam

THREE. Forging Political Identities, 1947-1988. The South Asian Refugee Regime and Refugee Resettlement Villages

FOUR. Transforming Political Identities, 1989-2001. Refugee Camps in Azad Jammu and Kashmir and the International Refugee Regime

FIVE. Human Rights and Jihād. Victimization and the Sovereignty of the Body

SIX. The Mujāhid as Family-Man. Sex, Death, and the Warrior's (Im)pure Body

CONCLUSION. From Muhājir to Mujāhid to Jihādī in the Global Order of Things

Notes

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780520954540

0520954548

OCLC:

836205974