Wild Libya
Narratives of violence on Egypt's Western border
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 3979186 |
|---|---|
| Autores | William Bland (0000-0002-5733-3688, University of Pennsylvania, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2022 |
| Volumen | 27 |
| Número | 3 |
| Páginas | 575-607 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2022-05-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | No |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | The Journal of North African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 1362-9387 • E-ISSN: 1743-9345 |
| Editorial | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13629387.2020.1842737 |
| OpenAlex | W3096802371 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 1 |
| Referencias citadas | 43 |
In February 2015, Islamic State militants in Libya murdered 21 Coptic Christian migrant workers in an execution-style ceremony. The response, which included the violent retaliation of the Egyptian military and the perpetual commemoration of the victims by the Coptic Orthodox Church, contrasted significantly from earlier incidents of Egyptian state violence against Copts, which both the Church and the state have aimed to obscure. What then makes one act of violence against Copts more visible than the other? This article approaches this question by investigating hierarchies of violence in contemporary Egypt. I argue that the 2015 beheadings constitute what I call an 'ideal moment of violence', an instance of violence that achieves high visibility because of its narrative utility for institutions of power. I contend that the Libyan context is a key dynamic in constructing the beheadings as an ideal moment of violence for the Egyptian state. Looking at the perpetrators, victims, and form of the violence, I reveal how each of these characteristics enforces a narrative of Libyan wildness that the Egyptian security state defines itself in opposition to and in turn helps to legitimize and obscure the state's own preferred modes of violence
Archaeology · Art · Ceremony · Context (archaeology · Criminology · Ideal (ethics · Islam · Literature · Narrative · Opposition (politics · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · State (computer science · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · History · Law · Middle East Politics and Society · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
Copts and the Security State
The Spectatorship of Suffering
Moral Predators
The State of Exception
The Copts of Egypt
Christians versus Muslims in Modem Egypt
Sectarian Conflict in Egypt
Ordering Power
The Muqaddimah. An Introduction to History
The Politics of 'Exit
Conquest of Paradise
Writing the History of the Modern Copts
Egypt's International Migration after the Revolution
Class cleavages and ethnic conflict
The highway of despair
The Islamic State's Colonial Policy in Egypt and Libya
Conflict and Cooperation
Savagery in democracy's empire
States and Women's Rights
Choice and Responsibility in Rijāl Fī Al-Shams
Return of the Beast
Hollow Land
Qadhafi and Militant Islamism
Images, ideologies, and commodities
Pensée 4
Vicissitudes in the Entente Between the Coptic Orthodox Church and the State in Egypt (1952–2007)
A Hierarchy of Innocence
Feminist Geopolitics Revisited
A long small war
Beyond anything we have ever seen
The Middle East
Post-Jihadism
Tribes in Libya
Why Do States Develop Multi-tier Emigrant Policies? Evidence from Egypt
Feminism, the Taliban, and Politics of Counter-Insurgency
Necropolitics
The Necropolitics of Drones
| Obras citantes distintas | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citas por año | 0,25 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Velocidad de citación | historical |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 1 |