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

Imprint Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010.

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Description vi, 272 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Treason -- Cross-cultural studies.
Treason -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Traitors -- Cross-cultural studies.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Thiranagama, Sharika.
Kelly, Tobias.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780812242133 (alk. paper)
0812242130 (alk. paper)
9780812222371
9780812205893 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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