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Autor/-in
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 Hayat, Maira, Verfasser
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Titel
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Empire’s accidents : law, lies, and sovereignty in the "war on terror" in Pakistan / Maira Hayat (Stanford University, USA)
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Enthalten in
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Critique of anthropology. - London : Sage. - Volume 40, number 1 (March 2020), Seiten 49-80, Illustrationen und Karten
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Critique of anthropology
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Zusammenfassung
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This essay tracks the relationship between the legal and the lethal in the Central Intelligence Agency’s operations in Pakistan as part of the U.S.-led war on terror. I juxtapose an account of an automobile accident in Lahore on 26 January 2011 involving the Blackwater employee, Raymond Davis, with a drone strike in the North Waziristan Agency in Pakistan’s (former) Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), the day after Davis was released by a court in Pakistan. I examine these “sovereign accidents” as articulations of the legal, political and democratic, and as sites upon which to (re)build understandings of sovereignty and its flourishes. Contrary to the popular tendency to see FATA as a marginal border region, that quintessential space of exception, I examine the FATA as jurisdiction. I thread together political discourse and practice in the U.S. and Pakistan, and by examining media coverage and litigation around the accidents, I show how a question of freedom of information in one setting is a question of life itself in another setting. At stake is the meaning and valence of law, the political, and the promise of postcolonial sovereignty.
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Gesamtbestand
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Alle Exemplare
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Bibliothek
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Basel Museum der Kulturen, Lesesaal. Sign.: MKB P 958
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Bibliothek
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Basel Museum der Kulturen, Lesesaal. Sign.: MKB P 958 : 40,2020:1
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Bibliothek
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Basel Museum der Kulturen, Lesesaal. Sign.: MKB P 958 : 40,2020:2
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Bibliothek
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Basel Museum der Kulturen, Lesesaal. Sign.: MKB P 958 : 40,2020:3
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Bibliothek
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Bern UB Unitobler, Lerchenweg (3. OG) Zeitschriften. Sign.: ET Z.3.116
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Thema GND
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Pakistan
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USA
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Thema GND
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Drohne (Flugkörper)
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Geltungsbereich des Rechts
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Gerichtsbarkeit
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Menschenrecht
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Standardnummer
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10.1177/0308275X19850686 doi
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Systemnr.
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007188990
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