Hostage Spaces of the Contemporary Islamicate World: Phantom Territoriality

by Dejan Lukic

Book Overview

How is hostage space
constructed? In
this age-long procedure found in conflicts around the world, strange forms of
terror and intimacy arise, particularly in the contemporary Islamic cultures of
Chechnya, Albania, and Bosnia. This book investigates the modes of desire and
politics found in kidnapping, in order to reveal the voices of victims and
kidnappers that often remain closed up. Dejan Lukic explores
the spaces...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472570863
• ISBN13: 9781472570864
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"