At the Limits of Justice : Women of Colour on Terror / Suvendrini Perera, Sherene Razack.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Perera, Suvendrini, editor.

Razack, Sherene, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Terrorism--Social aspects.

Terrorism.

Violence--Social aspects.

Violence.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (632 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In At the Limits of Justice, twenty-nine contributors from six countries examine the political, social, and personal repercussions of the war on terror.

Contents:

Introduction: At the Limits of Justice: Women of Colour on Terror / Suvendrini Perera and Sherene H. Razack

Section One: Mundane Terror/(Un)Liveable Lives. Ch. 1: Introduction / Laura Kwak

Ch. 2: Violence and Terror in a Colonized Country: Canada's Indian Residential School System / Robina Thomas

Ch. 3: Terrorism and the Birthing Body in Jerusalem / Nadera Shalhoub Kevorkian

Ch. 4: The Manufacture of Torture as Public Truth: The Case of Omar Khadr / Sherene H. Razack

Ch. 5: Surveillance Effects: South Asian, Arab, and Afghan American Youth in the War on Terror / Sunaina Maira

Ch. 6: The Biopolitics of Christian Persecution / Andrea Smith.

Section Two: Violence in a Far Country: Other Women's Lives. Ch.7: Introduction / Roshan Jahangeer & Shaira Vadasaria

Ch. 8: "Collateral violence": Women Rights and National Security in Pakistan's War on Terror / Amina Jamal

Ch. 9: "Outsourcing Patriarchy: Feminist Encounters, transnational mediations and the crime of "Honor killings" / Inderpal Grewal

Ch. 10: Diasporas of Empire: Arab Americans and the Reverberations of War / Nadine Naber

Ch. 11: Sovereignty, War on Terror and Violence against Women / Meyda Yegenoglu.

Section Three: Terror and the Limits of Remembering. Ch. 12: Introduction / Kendra-Ann Pitt

Ch. 13: "Weeping is Singing": After War, a Transnational Lament / Merlinda Bobis

Ch. 14: Gone but not Forgotten: Memorial Murals, Vigils and the Politics of Popular Commemoration in Jamaica / Honor Ford Smith

Ch. 15: "Lest We Forget": Terror and the Politics of Commemoration in Guyana / Alissa Trotz

Ch. 16: "Tortured Bodies": The Biopolitics of Torture and Truth in Chile / Teresa Macias.

Section Four: Thinking Humanitarianism/Thinking Terror. Ch. 17: Introduction / Gulzar R. Charania

Ch. 18: From the Northern Territory Emergency Response to Stronger Futures

Where is the Evidence that Australian Aboriginal Women are Leading Self-Determining Lives? / Nicole Watson

Ch. 19: Power In/Through Speaking of Terror: The Geopolitics and Anti-Politics of Discourses on Violence in Other Places / Sedef Arat-Koc

Ch. 20: Africa, 9/11 and the Temporality and Spatiality of Race and Terror / Malinda S Smith

Ch. 21: Humanitarianism as Planetary Politics / Miriam Ticktin.

Section Five: Terror Circuits. Ch. 22: Introduction / Hena Tyyebi

Ch. 23: Visual Colonial Economies and Slave Death in Modernity: Bin Laden's Terror? / Anna M. Agathangelou

Ch. 24: Viewing Violence in a Far Country: Abu Ghraib and Terror's New Performativities / Suvendrini Perera

Ch. 25: Fighting Terror: Race, Sex and the Monstrosity of Islam / Sunera Thobani.

Section Six: Theorizing (at) the Limits of Justice. Ch. 26: Introduction / Nashwa Salem

Ch. 27: In Terror, In Love, Out of Time / Asma Abbas

Ch. 28: Radical Praxis or Knowing / at

the Limits of Justice / Denise Ferreira da Silva

Ch. 29: Unsewing My Lips, Breathing my Voice: The Spoken and Unspoken Truth of Transnational Violence / Omeima Sukkarieh

Ch. 30: Mori Cards: The Body Bags Installation / Omeima Sukkarieh.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Okt 2018)

ISBN:

1-4426-1646-6

1-4426-1645-8

OCLC:

895193207