...Introducing the figure of the sheikh-hero, and locating him in the larger cultural history of this figure in U.S. popular culture, the introduction argues that desert romances demonstrate how fantasy and desire propel the war on terror. Centering desire enables a consideration of the way...

...The lives of Iraqi refugees in the US have been bookended by the actions of two presidents: George W. Bush’s decision to invade Iraq in 2003 and Donald Trump’s continuation of the War on Terror’s enhanced scrutiny of Arabs and Muslims tinged with Islamophobia. The book’s central purpose is here...

... of September 11. That initial legal challenge was undertaken on pure principle but seemed initially futile given the president’s war on terror posturing and categorical denial of the applicability of law. Yet in part through CCR’s mobilization of hundreds of other lawyers and human rights advocates, just six...

...This chapter examines the impact of the “War on Terror” on working-class Pakistani migrants in New York. Focusing on the thousands of “voluntary” return migrants, the chapter explores how racial disciplining and boundary making are produced through racial violence and everyday forms of policing...

... of liberal feminism in the “war on terror” and the politics of a show such as Homeland; and the acquittal of George Zimmerman for the murder of teenager Trayvon Martin, which echoed the acquittal of the police officers in the Rodney King beating. Suggesting that the very mild optimism...

...This article offers a theoretical and ethnographic analysis of 'security urbanism', examining the spatial practices of the Kenyan security state and the urban impacts of the War on Terror in Nairobi. From counterterror policing to forced disappearances, demolitions, military operations...

... United States Violence War on Drugs War on terror Borderization Public Security History As part of her ongoing research, Brígida Renoldi recorded her experiences of a river patrol along the Parana River with the Argentine Naval Prefecture. During previous conversations, the commander emphasized...

... view this poorly defined group as subhuman and evil. In prosecuting the War on Terror, we hold particular disdain for those more particularly and individually accused of terrorist acts or plots, even resorting to enhanced interrogation techniques, a euphemism for torture. The chapter imagines how we...

...Recent controversies surrounding the war on terror and American intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan have brought rule of law rhetoric to a fevered pitch. While President Barack Obama has repeatedly emphasized his administration's commitment to transparency and the rule of law, nowhere has...

...The Snowden files are recessive objects: things that promise to extend our knowability but, in doing so, catalyze speculation and doubt. Drawing on media phenomenology, this chapter connects this recessivity to the surveillance systems themselves and the war on terror. The effort to predict...

...This chapter explores stories of Vietnamese Americans who came of age after the Vietnam War and currently serve in the U.S. armed forces during the War on Terror in countries like Afghanistan and Iraq. These soldiers not only wanted to give back to their adopted country for their free lives...

... 1998, Albanian Prime Minister Fatos Nano traveled to the United States to meet Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Albania was about to become a modest but eager participant in the U.S.-led “war on terror.” With help from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Albania’s Shërbimi Informativ...

... officials' efforts to stretch and strain the justice system, the book canvasses the costs of the administration's many legal detours, from resisting accountability in the war on terrorism to thwarting economic and environmental regulation. The book maps these aberrations, surveys the damage done...

...This chapter wraps up the loose threads of the present study by extending the colonial ritual in which Mary Dyer was a crucial participant to the more recent “global war on terror.” The “war on terror” fused traditional Christian symbols with elements of the civil religion and cultural religion...

... created a new enforcement terrain and new forms of criminalization that differ from historic practices of illegalization. The concluding chapter reflects on this shifting enforcement arena and the global diffusion of criminal enforcement priorities under the so-called war on terror and considers...

...This chapter offers a brief history of the long war on terror as a racial gendered regime of state protection that linked the project of racial reform to the project of defense through the imperial grammars of Blackness. It discusses three phases of counterinsurgency in the period...

... to construct the war on terror as a freedom struggle as well as to refer to the staging of Black soldiering as a shorthand for freedom-making within the history of Black expressive culture. Black military visuality is thus is one significant terrain for working through the fraught relationship between Black...

...Lawyers cravenly prostituted the rule of law and courageously defended it during the U.S. “war on terror.” Richard L. Abel examines these extremes to understand how law can become infamous and what follows from its infamy. He begins with two examples of law’s...