Body of victim, body of warrior : refugee families and the making of Kashmiri jihadists /

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Author / Creator:	Robinson, Cabeiri deBergh, author.
Imprint:	Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [2013] ©2013
Description:	1 online resource (xxvii, 324 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English
Series:	South Asia across the disciplines South Asia across the disciplines.
Subject:	Kashmiri (South Asian people) -- Pakistan -- Azad Kashmir. Religious militants -- Pakistan -- Azad Kashmir. Jihad. Refugees -- Pakistan -- Azad Kashmir. Refugees -- India -- Jammu and Kashmir. Islam and politics -- Pakistan -- Azad Kashmir. Islam and politics. Jihad. Kashmiri (South Asian people) Refugees. Religious militants. India -- Jammu and Kashmir. Pakistan -- Azad Kashmir. Electronic book.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11180898

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ISBN:	0520954548 9780520954540 9781299444362 1299444369 9780520274211 9780520274204 0520274202 0520274210
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	"This book provides a fascinating look at the creation of contemporary Muslim jihadists. Basing the book on her long-term fieldwork in the disputed borderlands between Pakistan and India, Cabeiri deBergh Robinson tells the stories of people whose lives and families have been shaped by a long history of political conflict. Interweaving historical and ethnographic evidence, Robinson explains how refuge-seeking has become a socially and politically debased practice in the Kashmir region and why this devaluation has turned refugee men into potential militants. She reveals the fraught social processes by which individuals and families produce and maintain a modern jihad, and she shows how Muslim refugees have forged an Islamic notion of rights--a hybrid of global political ideals that adopts the language of human rights and humanitarianism as a means to rethink refugees' positions in transnational communities. Jihad is no longer seen as a collective fight for the sovereignty of the Islamic polity, but instead as a personal struggle to establish the security of Muslim bodies against political violence, torture, and rape. Robinson describes how this new understanding has contributed to the popularization of jihad in the Kashmir region, decentered religious institutions as regulators of jihad in practice, and turned the families of refugee youths into the ultimate mediators of entrance into militant organizations. This provocative book challenges the idea that extremism in modern Muslim societies is the natural by-product of a clash of civilizations, of a universal Islamist ideology, or of fundamentalist conversion"--Provided by publisher.
Other form:	Print version: 9780520274211 0520274210

Table of Contents:

Preface. The Kashmir dispute and the conflicts of conflict ethnography
Introduction. The social production of jihad
Between war and refuge in Jammu and Kashmir : displacement, borders, and the boundaries of political belonging
Protective migration and armed struggle : political violence and the limits of victimization in Islam
Forging political identities, 1947-1988 : the South Asian refugee regime and refugee resettlement villages
Transforming political identities, 1989-2001 : refugee camps in Azad Jammu and Kashmir and the international refugee regime
Human rights and jihad : victimization and the sovereignty of the body
The mujahid as 'family-man' : sex, death, and the warrior's (im)pure body
Conclusion. Muhajir, mujahid, jihad?
Postscript. And, humanitarian jihad.

Body of victim, body of warrior : refugee families and the making of Kashmiri jihadists /

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