Body of Victim, Body of Warrior Refugee Families and the Making of Kashmiri Jihadists

Name: Body of Victim, Body of Warrior Refugee Families and the Making of Kashmiri Jihadists
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ISBN: 9780520274211

ISBN-10: 0520274210

ISBN-13: 9780520274211

Edition: 2013

Authors: Cabeiri deBergh Robinson

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This book provides a fascinating look at the creation today's Muslim jihadist. Based on long-term field work in the disputed borderlands between Pakistan and India, Cabeiri Robinson examines the fraught social processes by which people whose lives and families have been shaped by a long history of political conflict produce and maintain a modern jihad. By interweaving historical and ethnographic evidence, the author tells the story of how 'refuge-seeking' has become a socially and politically de-valued practice in the Kashmir region, and why this devaluation has turned refugee men into potential militants. She also shows how Muslim refugees have forged an Islamic notion of "rights" as a…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 3/8/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 342
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Cabeiri deBergh Robinsonis Assistant Professor of International Studies & South Asian Studies at the Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington.



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 Jihad



Between Hijarat and Jihad in Azad Kashmir



Between War and Refuge in Jammu and Kashmir: Displacement, Borders, and the Boundaries of Political Belonging



Protective Migration and Armed Struggle: Political Violence and the Limits of Victimization in Islam



The Historical Emergence of Kashmiri Refugees as Political Subjects



Forging Political Identities, 1947-1988: The South Asian Refugee Regime and Refugee Resettlement Villages



Transforming Political Identities, 1989-2001: Refugee Camps in Azad Jammu and Kashmir and the International Refugee Regime



Body of Victim, Body of Warrior



Human Rights and Jihad: Victimization and the Sovereignty of the Body



The Mujahid as Family-Man: Sex, Death, and the Warrior's (Im)pure Body


Conclusion: From Muhajir to Mujahid to Jihadi in the Global Order of Things


Postscript: And, "Humanitarian Jihad"


Notes


Glossary


Bibliography


Index