Traitors : suspicion, intimacy, and the ethics of state-building / edited by Sharika Thiranagama and...
Traitors : suspicion, intimacy, and the ethics of state-building / edited by Sharika Thiranagama and...
Traitors : suspicion, intimacy, and the ethics of state-building / edited by Sharika Thiranagama and Tobias Kelly.
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Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010.
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N364.131/33
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Language
English
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Physical content
vi, 272 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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,...
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Publisher
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010.
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania
Date Published
c2010.
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Summary
"The figure of the traitor plays an intriguing role in modern politics. Traitors are a source of transgression from within, creating their own kinds of aversion and suspicion. They destabilize the rigid moral binaries of victim and persecutor, friend and enemy. Recent history is stained by collaborators, informers, traitors, and the bloody purges a...
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Traitors : suspicion, intimacy, and the ethics of state-building / edited by Sharika Thiranagama and Tobias Kelly.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2010.
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N364.131/33
Record Identifier
74VKmw670NMl
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKmw670NMl
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ISBN
0812242130 (alk. paper)
9780812242133 (alk. paper)
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364.131
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991020450439702626
