LEADER 04665cam a22004334a 4500001 7577033 005 20151111201147.0 008 090505s2010 paua b 001 0 eng 003 hubpceuo 010 2009018800 020 9780812242133 (alk. paper) 020 0812242130 (alk. paper) 024 40017457913 035 (OCoLC)320524807 035 (OCoLC)ocn320524807 035 (NNC)7577033 040 DLC |cDLC |dBTCTA |dYDXCP |dC#P |dOrLoB-B 050 00 JC328 |b.T73 2010 082 00 364.1/31 |222 242 |yEnglish 245 00 Traitors : |bsuspicion, intimacy, and the ethics of state-building / |cedited by Sharika Thiranagama and Tobias Kelly. 260 Philadelphia : |bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, |cc2010. 300 vi, 272 p. : |bill. ; |c24 cm. 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 00 |gIntroduction. |tSpecters of Treason -- |g1. |tXiconhoca: Mozambique's Ubiquitous Post-Independence Traitor / |rLars Buur -- |g2. |tDenunciatory Practices and the Constitutive Role of Collaboration in the Bangladesh War / |rNayanika Mookherjee -- |g3. |tIntimacy, Loyalty, and State Formation: The Specter of the "Anti-National" / |rRichard W. Whitecross -- |g4. |tTraitors, Terror, and Regime Consolidation on the Two Sides of the Taiwan Straits: "Revolutionaries" and "Reactionaries" from 1949 to 1956 / |rJulia C. Strauss -- |g5. |tBetraying Trust and the Elusive Nature of Ethnicity in Burundi / |rSimon Turner -- |g6. |tIn Praise of Traitors: Intimacy, Betrayal, and the Sri Lankan Tamil Community / |rSharika Thiranagama -- |g7. |tTreason and Contested Moralities in a Coloured Township, Cape Town / |rSteffen Jensen -- |g8. |tIn a Treacherous State: The Fear of Collaboration Among West Bank Palestinians / |rTobias Kelly -- |g9. |tThe Glass Agency: Iranian War Veterans as Heroes or Traitors? / |rKamran Rastegar -- |g10. |tThe Man in the White Raincoat: Betrayal and the Historian's Task / |rIstvan Rev -- |tAfterword: Questions of Judgment / |rStephan Feuchtwang. 520 1 "The figure of the traitor plays an intriguing role in modern politics. Traitors are a source of transgression from within, creating their own kinds of aversion and suspicion. They destabilize the rigid moral binaries of victim and persecutor, friend and enemy. Recent history is stained by collaborators, informers, traitors, and the bloody purges and other acts of retribution against them. In the emergent nation-state of Bhutan, the specter of the "antinational" traitor helped to transform the traditional view of loyalty based on social relations. In Sri Lanka, the Tamil Tigers' fear of traitors was tangled with the Tamil civilians' fear of being betrayed to the Tigers as traitors. For Palestinians in the West Bank, simply earning a living can mean complicity with people acting in the name of the Israeli state." "While most contemporary studies of violence and citizenship focus on the creation of the "other," the cases in Traitors: Suspicion, Intimacy, and the Ethics of State-Building illustrate the equally strong political and social anxieties among those who seem to be most alike. Treason is often treated as a pathological distortion of political life. However, the essays in Traitors propose that treachery is a constant, essential, and normal part of the processes through which social and political order is produced." "In the political gray zones between personal and state loyalties, traitors and their prosecutors play roles that make and unmake regimes. In this volume, ten scholars examine political. ethnic, and personal trust and betrayals in modern times from Mozambique to the Taiwan Straits, from the former Eastern Bloc to the West Bank." "This collection studies the tension between close personal relationships, the demands of nation-states, and the moral choices that result when these interests collide. In asking how traitors are defined in the context of local histories, contributors address larger comparative questions about the nature of postcolonial citizenship."--BOOK JACKET. 650 0 Treason |vCross-cultural studies. 650 0 Treason |xMoral and ethical aspects. 650 0 Traitors |vCross-cultural studies. 700 1 Thiranagama, Sharika. 700 1 Kelly, Tobias. 900 AUTH |bTOC 942 |2ddc |cBK 948 1 20100127 |bc |csds12 |dMPS 952 |00 |10 |2ddc |40 |6364_131000000000000_THI |70 |8REF |925163OSA |bOSA |d2014-01-17 |eOSA |l0 |o364.1/31 THI |r2014-01-17 |w2014-01-17 |yBK |cReference 920 01 7elQk4or 992 01 364_131000000000000_THI |bWTV_YWYZZZZZZZZZZZZ_6IH 966 |cIn the Research Room