Journal article
The terrorist as humanitarian
- Abstract:
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A global society has come into being, but as yet it possesses no political institutions proper to its name. I will make the case that new forms of militancy, like that of al-Qaeda, achieve meaning in this institutional vacuum while representing, in their own way, the search for a global politics. From environmentalism to pacifism, such a worldwide politics can only be one that takes humanity itself as its object. This article aims to show that militant practices are informed by the same searc...
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- Journal:
- Social Analysis
- Volume:
- 53
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 173-192
- Publication date:
- 2009-03-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1558-5727
- ISSN:
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0155-977X
- Source identifiers:
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149194
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:149194
- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- pubs:149194
- Deposit date:
- 2012-12-19
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- Copyright date:
- 2009
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