LEADER 05588nam 2200853 a 450 001 9910788366303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8122-2237-7 010 $a1-283-89792-X 010 $a0-8122-0589-8 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812205893 035 $a(CKB)3170000000047061 035 $a(EBL)3441952 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000606124 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11433687 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000606124 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10580497 035 $a(PQKB)10391886 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000811990 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12391148 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000811990 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10851316 035 $a(PQKB)11192804 035 $a(OCoLC)793341718 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse11971 035 $a(DE-B1597)449423 035 $a(OCoLC)1013963458 035 $a(OCoLC)1037980214 035 $a(OCoLC)1041911547 035 $a(OCoLC)1046619371 035 $a(OCoLC)1047029121 035 $a(OCoLC)806880718 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812205893 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441952 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10642704 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL421042 035 $a(UtSlPG)29162 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441952 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000047061 100 $a20090505d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aTraitors$b[electronic resource] $esuspicion, intimacy, and the ethics of state-building /$fedited by Sharika Thiranagama and Tobias Kelly 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (312 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8122-4213-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aXiconhoca: 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 / Istva?n Re?v -- Afterword: questions of judgment / Stephan Feuchtwang. 330 $aThe 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 and other acts of retribution against them. In the emergent nation-state of Bhutan, the specter of the "antinational" traitor helped to transform the traditional view of loyalty based on social relations. In Sri Lanka, the Tamil Tigers' fear of traitors is tangled with the Tamil civilians' fear of being betrayed to the Tigers as traitors. For Palestinians in the West Bank, simply earning a living can mean complicity with people acting in the name of the Israeli state.While most contemporary studies of violence and citizenship focus on the creation of the "other," the cases in Traitors: Suspicion, Intimacy, and the Ethics of State-Building illustrate the equally strong political and social anxieties among those who seem to be most alike. Treason is often treated as a pathological distortion of political life. However, the essays in Traitors propose that treachery is a constant, essential, and normal part of the processes through which social and political order is produced. In the political gray zones between personal and state loyalties, traitors and their prosecutors play roles that make and unmake regimes. In this volume, ten scholars examine political, ethnic, and personal trust and betrayals in modern times from Mozambique to the Taiwan Straits, from the former Eastern Bloc to the West Bank.This fascinating collection studies the tension between close personal relationships, the demands of nation-states, and the moral choices that result when these interests collide. In asking how traitors are defined in the context of local histories, contributors address larger comparative questions about the nature of postcolonial citizenship. 606 $aTreason$vCross-cultural studies 606 $aTreason$xMoral and ethical aspects 606 $aTraitors$vCross-cultural studies 610 $aAnthropology. 610 $aFolklore. 610 $aLinguistics. 610 $aPolitical Science. 610 $aPublic Policy. 615 0$aTreason 615 0$aTreason$xMoral and ethical aspects. 615 0$aTraitors 676 $a364.1/31 701 $aThiranagama$b Sharika$01108089 701 $aKelly$b Tobias$01516214 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788366303321 996 $aTraitors$93861989 997 $aUNINA