Traitors : : Suspicion, Intimacy, and the Ethics of State-Building / / ed. by Sharika Thiranagama, Tobias Kelly.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection
• MitwirkendeR: Buur, Lars,; Jensen, Steffen,; Kelly, Tobias,; Mookherjee, Nayanika,; Rév, István,; Strauss, Julia C.,; Thiranagama, Sharika,; Turner, Simon,; Whitecross, Richard W.,
• HerausgeberIn: Kelly, Tobias,; Thiranagama, Sharika,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.) :; 8 illus.

The figure of the traitor plays an intriguing role in modern politics. Traitors are a source of transgression from within, creating their own kinds of aversion and suspicion. They destabilize the rigid moral binaries of victim and persecutor, friend and enemy. Recent history is stained by collaborat...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction: Specters of Treason
• 1. Xiconhoca: Mozambique's Ubiquitous Post-Independence Traitor
• 2. Denunciatory Practices and the Constitutive Role of Collaboration in the Bangladesh War
• 3. Intimacy, Loyalty, and State Formation: The Specter of the ''Anti-National''
• 4. Traitors, Terror, and Regime Consolidation on the Two 4. Sides of the Taiwan Straits: ''Revolutionaries'' and ''Reactionaries'' from 1949 to 1956
• 5. Betraying Trust and the Elusive Nature of Ethnicity in Burundi
• 6. In Praise of Traitors: Intimacy, Betrayal, and the Sri Lankan Tamil Community
• 7. Treason and Contested Moralities in a Coloured Township, Cape Town
• 8. In a Treacherous State: The Fear of Collaboration Among West Bank Palestinians
• 9. The Glass Agency: Iranian War Veterans as Heroes or Traitors? Kamran Rastegar
• 10 The Man in the White Raincoat: Betrayal and the Historian's Task
• Afterword: Questions of Judgment Stephan Feuchtwang
• Notes
• Bibliography
• List of Contributors
• Index
• Acknowledgments