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The symposium ""Sleepers, Moles, and Martyrs: Secret Identifications, Societal Integration, and the Differing Meanings of Freedom"" held in Reinhausen, 2002, formed the basis of this publication. Occasioned by the social, political and mass media discourses after the bombings of New York's World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, an interdisciplinary group of scholars came together to explore the connotations and implications of the term ""sleeper"". The biographies of terrorist perpetrators are but one of many permutations of sleeper-like phenomena in late modern polities. Clandestine operatives of the state are sleepers, and both willing and unwilling victims of terrorism are discursively transformed from sleepers into martyrs. Starting with analyses of the discourses about sleepers in Part I-their historical antecedents, narrative employment, and semantic differentiation-Part II turns to the hidden or unspoken of aspects of the state, the challenge of fundamentalist terrorism to the modern political project and the tensions between neighbourly discourse, public display and the state. Part III juxtaposes changing depictions of Shiite martyrdom with the violence done to the term ""martyr"" within the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In Part IV, cultural secrets encoded in memorials and public silences in academic discourse are addressed. The different cases assembled offer comparative materials and perspectives from the USA, France, the Netherlands, Pakistan, Spain, Iran, Israel, Istria and Sweden.

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Author:   Regina Bendix ,  John Bendix
Publisher:   Museum Tusculanum Press
Imprint:   Museum Tusculanum Press
Weight:   0.298kg
ISBN:  

9788772899879

ISBN 10:   8772899875
Pages:   131
Publication Date:   01 August 2004
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part I: Discourses: Generating and Commenting on Sleepers -- The Opposite of Right Society: Witches, Terrorists and the Discourse of Evil; The Enemy Within: From Evil Others to Evil Elites; Sleepers' Secrets, Actors' Revelations. Part II: Sense-Making in Shadowy Contexts -- The Nation and its Shadow: Imagining Subversion in Post-911 Pakistan and Holland; Moles, Martyrs and Sleepers: The End of the Hobbesian Project; Neighbours, Sleepers, and the Violence of Recognition in Urban Spain. Part III: Martyrs in Visual and Linguistic Contexts -- The Martyr's Way to Paradise: Shiite Mural Art in the Urban Context; Martyr vs. Martyr: The Sacred Language of Violence. Part IV: Murmurs and Silences -- Making Sense of Memory: Monuments and Landscape in Croatian Istria; Silences, Cultural Historical Museums, and Jewish Life in Sweden.

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Regina Bendix is professor at Georg-August Universitat, Gottingen.

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