THE FACELESS TERRORIST
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- Author: SOPHIE ROCHE
- ISBN: 9783030038427
- Availability: In Stock
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How could a person portrayed as a terrorist by the Tajik
state also be seen as a mujahid fighter in Islam and be a cousin all at the
same time? Is this just a matter of perspective and conceptualization? To
believe in the protection of concepts to safeguard groups and individuals from
the uncertain character of the world, is to deny the existence of chance and
the contradictions in life. This book uses approaches from existential
anthropology to enquire into the question of how concepts and experiences
relate. The focus is on the way the notions jihad, mujahid and terrorism were
used during a military intervention in Tajikistan in 2010. The book includes
long-term ethnographic material, popular pamphlets on Islam and an internet
analysis of the conflict, offering new insights into how concepts and
experiences relate. Since the end of the Soviet Union, the people from the
republic Tajikistan have struggled to find a place in the larger Muslim world,
a painful process unfolding in relation to global events, discourses and
politics. The primary readership for the book will come from academia and
policy makers.