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182449
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In his haunting ‘The Sea Is History’, the great Trinidadian poet Derek Walcott marries the story of the maritime transportation of enslaved Africans to the narrative progression of the Old Testament:
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ID:
059076
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ID:
114974
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2011.
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Current US counterinsurgency doctrine is gendered diversely in the different geographic locations where it is formulated, put in practice, and experienced. Where Iraqi and Afghan populations are subjected to counterinsurgency and its attendant development policy, spaces are made legible in gendered ways, and people are targeted - for violence or 'nation-building' - on the basis of gender-categorisation. Second, this gendering takes its most incendiary form in the seam of encounter between counterinsurgent foot-soldiers and the locals, where sexuality is weaponised and gender is most starkly cross-hatched with class and race. Finally, in the Metropole, new masculinities and femininities are forged in the domain of counterinsurgency policymaking: While new soldier-scholars represent a softened masculinity, counterinsurgent women increasingly become visible in policy circles, with both using ostensibly feminist justifications for their involvement.
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ID:
097707
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152217
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ID:
124483
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2013.
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Colleagues with whom I spoke about this piece had one of two responses: "Why do you want to feed the flames of cliché and prejudice about violence in the Middle East?" and "Surely, there has been no theorization of violence in the Middle East." Regarding the first response, I agree that thinking about violence in the Middle East can be a fraught enterprise. This is because a hysterical mainstream narrative locates the sources of violence in or emanating from the region in Islam(ism) or attributes it to some half-baked but remarkably persistent cultural explanations (tribalism, ancient hatreds, cycles of violence, etc.) which uncomfortably echo the racism of an earlier scholarly era. But enough innovative works have emerged on violence that we can move-at least in our scholarly conversations-beyond this terrain of prejudice and paranoia.
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