At the Limits of Justice: Women of Colour on Terror

Published by University of Toronto Press 2014

At the Limits of Justice

Women of Colour on Terror

Edited by: Suvendrini Perera and Sherene Razack

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442616455

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About this book

In At the Limits of Justice, twenty-nine contributors from six countries examine the political, social, and personal repercussions of the war on terror.

Author / Editor information

Perera Suvendrini :

Suvendrini Perera is a professor in the Department of Communication and Cultural Studies at Curtin University.
Razack Sherene :

Sherene H. Razack is a professor in the Department of Social Justice at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.

Reviews

Laleh Khalili, Professor of Middle East Politics, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London:

“This rich and thoughtful edited volume challenges us to think through the meaning of terror, its everyday affects and effects, its echoes across the ocean, its memories and commemorations, and the circuits of power and politics through which it travels. The authors use their ‘racialized and gendered positioning in [their] current locations’ to theorize the interconnections between different sites and bodies subjected to terror. The collection is remarkably coherent, an imaginative, thought-provoking, and committed work of scholarship and politics.”

Lowell Ewert, Director, Peace and Conflict Studies Program, Conrad Grebel University College, University of Waterloo:
“At the Limits of Justice is the single most comprehensive collection of perspectives on this topic. The voices it presents are powerful, passionate, and rooted in a deep understanding of the oppression women have faced and continue to face. The book does not simply rehash old accepted theories. It pushes the edges and challenges the reader to consider that which is not mainstream.”

Eunice Sahle, Department of Africa, African American, and Diaspora Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill:
“From bearing witness to the violence that children of First Nations people faced in Canada to the effects of the everyday forms of surveillance tactics that youth of Arab and South Asian descent face in the Silicon Valley, At the Limits of Justice offers a rich tapestry of case studies that illuminate the multiplicity of projects of violence in the past and in the contemporary era of new imperialism.”

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
AT THE LIMITS OF JUSTICE. Women of Colour on Terror Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Introduction. At the Limits of Justice: Women of Colour Theorize Terror Suvendrini Perera and Sherene H. Razack Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Section One: Mundane Terror / (Un)Livable Lives
1. Introduction to Section One Laura Kwak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
2. Violence and Terror in a Colonized Country: Canada’s Indian Residential School System Robina Thomas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
3. Terrorism and the Birthing Body in Jerusalem Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
4. The Manufacture of Torture as Public Truth: The Case of Omar Khadr Sherene H. Razack Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
5. Surveillance Effects: South Asian, Arab, and Afghan American Youth in the War on Terror Sunaina Maira Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	86
6. The Biopolitics of Christian Persecution Andrea Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
Section Two: Violence in a Far Country: Other Women’s Lives
7. Introduction to Section Two Roshan Jahangeer and Shaira Vadasaria Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
8. “Collateral Violence”: Women’s Rights and National Security in Pakistan’s War on Terror Amina Jamal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	148
9. Outsourcing Patriarchy: Feminist Encounters, Transnational Mediations, and the Crime of “Honour Killings” Inderpal Grewal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	164
10. Diasporas of Empire: Arab Americans and the Reverberations of War Nadine Naber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
11. Sovereignty, War on Terror, and Violence against Women Meyda Yeğenoğlu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Section Three: Terror and the Limits of Remembering
12. Introduction to Section Three Kendra-Ann Pitt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
13. “Weeping Is Singing”: After the War, a Transnational Lament Merlinda Bobis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
14. Gone but Not Forgotten: Memorial Murals, Vigils, and the Politics of Popular Commemoration in Jamaica Honor Ford-Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
15. “Lest We Forget”: Terror and the Politics of Commemoration in Guyana D. Alissa Trotz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
16. “Tortured Bodies”: The Biopolitics of Torture and Truth in Chile Teresa Macias Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	309
Section Four: Thinking Humanitarianism / Thinking Terror
17. Introduction to Section Four Gulzar R. Charania Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331
18. From the Northern Territory Emergency Response to Stronger Futures: Where Is the Evidence That Australian Aboriginal Women Are Leading Self-Determining Lives? Nicole Watson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335
19. Power in/through Speaking of Terror: The Geopolitics and Anti-Politics of Discourses on Violence in Other Places Sedef Arat-Koç Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	356
20. Africa, 9/11, and the Temporality and Spatiality of Race and Terror Malinda S. Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	380
21. Humanitarianism as Planetary Politics Miriam Ticktin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	406
Section Five: Terror Circuits
22. Introduction to Section Five Hena Tyyebi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	423
23. Visual Colonial Economies and Slave Death in Modernity: Bin Laden’s Terror? Anna M. Agathangelou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	426
24. Viewing Violence in a Far Country: Abu Ghraib and Terror’s New Performativities Suvendrini Perera Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	455
25. Fighting Terror: Race, Sex, and the Monstrosity of Islam Sunera Thobani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	472
Section Six: Theorizing (at) the Limits of Justice
26. Introduction to Section Six Nashwa Salem Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	499
27. In Terror, in Love, out of Time Asma Abbas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	503
28. Radical Praxis or Knowing (at) the Limits of Justice Denise Ferreira Da Silva Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	526
29. Unsewing My Lips, Breathing My Voice: The Spoken and Unspoken Truth of Transnational Violence Omeima Sukkarieh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	538
30. Mori Cards: The Body Bags Installation Omeima Sukkarieh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	548
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	553
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	611

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 632
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 18

eBook

Published: October 8, 2018
ISBN: 9781442616455