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2. Political Self-Sacrifice: Agency, Body and Emotion in International Relations
- Author:
- Andrew A.G. Ross
- Publication Date:
- 04-2014
- Content Type:
- Journal Article
- Abstract:
- Political Self-Sacrifice: Agency, Body and Emotion in International Relations, K. M. Fierke (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013), 281 pp., $95 cloth. What could we learn from examining suicide bombing, self-immolation, or hunger strikes not through the lens of state security but from the position of those individuals who use such acts to achieve normative change? In addressing this question, Political Self-Sacrifice brings what seem like senseless acts of desperation into focus as strategically intelligible and culturally meaningful techniques of resistance. By disentangling the logic of “political self-sacrifice,” K. M. Fierke offers an important and timely account of the political strategies, cultural meanings, and normative aspirations associated with those participants in international affairs who, as she puts it, “play with a weak hand” (p. 8).
- Topic:
- International Relations, Politics, and Regime Change
- Political Geography:
- New York