Hostage Spaces of the Contemporary Islamicate World —— Phantom Territoriality

----- 当代世界的islamicate人质空间：幽灵的属地：悬浮液：当代中东和islamicate思想

ISBN: 9781472570864 出版年：2012 页码：207 Dejan Lukic Bloomsbury Publishing

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 where hostages and hostage takers come into contact - spaces of accident, sacrifice, hope, and catastrophe - or, in other words, the spaces that announce utopias bound to fail. In this book, the figures of the victim, the terrorist, the sovereign, the resistance fighter and the witness – among others – emerge with a new face; one that will contribute to our understandings of what it means to act politically and ethically today.