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Body of victim, body of warrior [[electronic resource] ] : refugee families and the making of Kashmiri jihadists / / Cabeiri deBergh Robinson



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Autore: Robinson Cabeiri deBergh Visualizza persona
Titolo: Body of victim, body of warrior [[electronic resource] ] : refugee families and the making of Kashmiri jihadists / / Cabeiri deBergh Robinson Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2013
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (353 p.)
Disciplina: 363.325/108991499
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto non controllato: asia scholars
asian studies
contemporary muslims
ethnographers
ethnography
extremism
fieldwork
fundamentalism
global politics
historians
historical perspective
human rights
humanitarianism
india
kashmir
middle east
militant organizations
muslim jihadists
muslim refugees
nonfiction
pakistan
political conflict
political issues
political violence
refugee families
religious extremists
religious violence
social issues
south asia
transnational
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Altri titoli varianti: Refugee families and the making of Kashmiri jihadists
Titolo autorizzato: Body of victim, body of warrior  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-95454-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910786240703321
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