Traitors : suspicion, intimacy, and the ethics of state-building / / edited by Sharika Thiranagama and Tobias Kelly.

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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:vi, 272 p. :; ill.
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Table of Contents:
  • Xiconhoca: Mozambique's ubiquitous post-independence traitor / Lars Buur
  • Denunciatory practices and the constitutive role of collaboration in the Bangladesh War / Nayanika Mookherjee
  • Intimacy, loyalty, and state formation: the specter of the "anti-national" / Richard W. Whitecross
  • Traitors, terror, and regime consolidation on the two sides of the Taiwan straits: "revolutionaries" and "reactionaries" from 1949 to 1956 / Julia C. Strauss
  • Betraying trust and the elusive nature of ethnicity in Burundi / Simon Turner
  • In praise of traitors: intimacy, betrayal, and the Sri Lankan Tamil community / Sharika Thiranagama
  • Treason and contested moralities in a coloured township, Cape Town / Steffen Jensen
  • In a treacherous state: the fear of collaboration among West Bank Palestinians / Tobias Kelly
  • The glass agency: Iranian war veterans as heroes or traitors? / Kamran Rastegar
  • The man in the white raincoat: betrayal and the historian's task / Istvan Rev
  • Afterword: questions of judgment / Stephan Feuchtwang.