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- Addresses new and emerging areas of study, like the critical study of terrorism and violence
- Analyzes terrorism as a place of cultural value and shows how nationalism emerges out of transforming identities
- Combines multiple kinds of data together into an analytical narrative
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This book examines the intersecting forces of nationalism, terrorism, and patriotism that normalize an acceptance of the global war on terror as essential to maintaining freedom and democracy as defined by white nation-states. Readers are introduced to speculative ethnography: an experimental methodology that bends time and space through the practice of avant-garde poetics. This study conceptualizes terrorism as a place of colonial encounters between soldiers, insurgents, civilians, and leaders of nation-states. The tactics of suicide bombings employed by the Tamil nationalist movement, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, are juxtaposed with drone strikes in asymmetric warfare where violence becomes a means of dialogue. Each chapter weaves seemingly disparate narratives from multiple experiences and sites of war, inviting readers to witness the condition of getting lost in that willful attachment to killing and being killed in service of patriotic pride and national belonging.
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Book Title: Nationalism, Terrorism, Patriotism
Book Subtitle: A Speculative Ethnography of War
Authors: Yamuna Sangarasivam
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82665-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82664-2Published: 22 December 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82667-3Published: 23 December 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-82665-9Published: 01 January 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 333
Number of Illustrations: 36 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Political Sociology, Terrorism and Political Violence, Ethnography