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Nationalism, Terrorism, Patriotism

A Speculative Ethnography of War

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Authors:
  1. Yamuna Sangarasivam

    1. Nazareth College, Rochester, USA

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  • Addresses new and emerging areas of study, like the critical study of terrorism and violence
  • Analyzes terrorism as a place of cultural value and shows how nationalism emerges out of transforming identities
  • Combines multiple kinds of data together into an analytical narrative

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Prologue

    • Yamuna Sangarasivam
    Pages 1-14

  3. A Speculative Ethnography of War

    • Yamuna Sangarasivam
    Pages 15-68

  4. Another Brick in the Wall: The Cultural Value of Terrorism

    • Yamuna Sangarasivam
    Pages 69-113

  5. Goodbye Blue Sky: The Ethical Demands of Suicide Bombing

    • Yamuna Sangarasivam
    Pages 115-174

  6. Comfortably Numb: Abjection & Anarchy

    • Yamuna Sangarasivam
    Pages 175-209

  7. Run Like Hell: Mullivaikkal

    • Yamuna Sangarasivam
    Pages 211-260

  8. A Great Day for Freedom: Life Under Occupation

    • Yamuna Sangarasivam
    Pages 261-295

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 297-333
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About this book

This book examines the intersecting forces of nationalism, terrorism, and patriotism that normalize an acceptance of the global war on terror as essential to maintaining freedom and democracy as defined by white nation-states. Readers are introduced to speculative ethnography: an experimental methodology that bends time and space through the practice of avant-garde poetics. This study conceptualizes terrorism as a place of colonial encounters between soldiers, insurgents, civilians, and leaders of nation-states. The tactics of suicide bombings employed by the Tamil nationalist movement, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, are juxtaposed with drone strikes in asymmetric warfare where violence becomes a means of dialogue. Each chapter weaves seemingly disparate narratives from multiple experiences and sites of war, inviting readers to witness the condition of getting lost in that willful attachment to killing and being killed in service of patriotic pride and national belonging.

Reviews

“Sangarasivam’s Nationalism, Terrorism, Patriotism: A Speculative Ethnography of War invites us to read the poetics of terror as a place of cultural value; a site where nationalism, patriotism, white supremacy, imperial politics, soldiers, insurgents, and ordinary men and women caught in the webs of racialized colonial domination all intersect in violence. The book is autobiographical, reflexive, wonderfully pluralistic, and relentless in its critique. I find it a breath of fresh air for the critical study of security and terrorism.” (Dr. Jacob Stump, Department of International Studies, DePaul University, Chicago, USA)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Nazareth College, Rochester, USA

    Yamuna Sangarasivam

About the author

Yamuna Sangarasivam is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Women & Gender Studies Program at Nazareth College, USA.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Nationalism, Terrorism, Patriotism

  • Book Subtitle: A Speculative Ethnography of War

  • Authors: Yamuna Sangarasivam

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82665-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82664-2Published: 22 December 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82667-3Published: 23 December 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-82665-9Published: 01 January 2022

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 333

  • Number of Illustrations: 36 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Political Sociology, Terrorism and Political Violence, Ethnography

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