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How is hostage space constructed? In this age-long procedure found in conflicts around the world, strange forms of terror and intimacy arise, particularly in the contemporary Islamic cultures of Chechnya, Albania, and Bosnia. This book investigates the modes of desire and politics found in kidnapping, in order to reveal the voices of victims and kidnappers that often remain closed up. Dejan Lukic explores the spaces where hostages and hostage takers come into contact - spaces of accident, sacrifice, hope, and catastrophe - or, in other words, the spaces that announce utopias bound to fail. In this book, the figures of the victim, the terrorist, the sovereign, the resistance fighter and the witness – among others – emerge with a new face; one that will contribute to our understandings of what it means to act politically and ethically today.

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9781441194848

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An extended and highly original meditation on the ambiguous figure of the hostage in modern life. -- Faisal Devji, Reader in Modern South Asian History at the University of Oxford, UK

An extended and highly original meditation on the ambiguous figure of the hostage in modern life. -- Faisal Devji, Reader In Modern South Asian History At The University Of Oxford, UK 20120723

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Dejan Lukic is Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Reed College, Oregon, USA.

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