Traitors [electronic resource] : suspicion, intimacy, and the ethics of state-building / edited by Sharika Thiranagama and Tobias Kelly.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010.Description: vi, 272 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 364.1/31 22
LOC classification:
  • JC328 .T73 2010eb
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Contents:
Xiconhoca: 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 / István Rév -- Afterword: questions of judgment / Stephan Feuchtwang.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Xiconhoca: 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 / István Rév -- Afterword: questions of judgment / Stephan Feuchtwang.

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