Hostage spaces of the contemporary Islamicate world
Subtitle: phantom territoriality
By: Dejan Lukic.́
Series: Suspensions, contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate thought
Publisher: Continuum International Pub. Group
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9781441194848; 9781441160355
Subjects: Political kidnapping; Terrorism; Hostages; Islam
Description: "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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Diagrammatic intensifications; title: Being on the lookout, the animal; title: Biopotentiality and the enemy; title: Architectonics of the hostage space; title: Movement of the black stone; title: Delirium of air; title: New weapon; title: Sovereign, of the outside; title: Taking, seizing, the event; title: Cry, the inhuman.