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Author Kastoryano, Riva, author

Title Burying jihadis : bodies between state, territory, and identity / Riva Kastoryano ; translated by Cynthia Schoch
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource
Summary What should states do with the bodies of suicide bombers and other jihadists who die while perpetrating terrorist attacks? This original and unsettling book explores the host of ethical and political questions raised by this dilemma, from (non- ) legitimisation of the 'enemy' and their cause to the non-territorial identity of individuals who identified in life with a global community of believers. Because states do not recognise suicide bombers as enemy combatants, governments must decide individually what to do with their remains. Riva Kastoryano offers a window onto this challenging predicament through the responses of the American, Spanish, British and French governments after the Al-Qaeda suicide attacks in New York, Madrid and London, and Islamic State's attacks on Paris in 2015
Notes Translated from the French
This translation previously issued in print: London: Hurst & Company, 2017
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Audience Specialized
Notes Online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 14, 2019)
Subject Terrorists.
Jihad.
Dead -- Political aspects
Terrorism -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
Dead -- Political aspects.
Jihad.
Terrorism -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
Terrorists.
Form Electronic book
Author Schoch, Cynthia, translator
ISBN 9780190942960
0190942967
Other Titles Que faire des corps des djihadistes?. English