J Zulaika
Biographic Data
| ID | 19091 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Zulaika |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Zulaika |
| SIGNATURE | ZULAIKA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nevada, Reno |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1894-5259 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 284 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
La guerra de drones: Caza, Fantasía Y El Arte De Asesinar
El artículo examina la guerra de drones como una forma de caza llevada a cabo por vía satélite desde la base militar aérea de Creech cerca de Las Vegas. El evento revelador inicial es el trauma que sufren los pilotos de drones debido a la intimidad visual con la que contemplan las consecuencias fatídicas de sus acciones. Se analiza el papel de la fantasía en el comportamiento de caza de los pilotos y en la retroalimentación mutua entre terrorismo…
The Dark God: The Sacrifice of Sacrifice
The Frazerian question of murder turned into ritual sacrifice is foundational to cultural anthropology. Frazer described the antinomian figure of a king, who was, at once, a priest and a murderer. Generations of anthropologists have studied sacrifice in ethnographic contexts and theorized about its religious significance. But sacrifice itself may turn into a problem, and René Girard wrote about "the sacrificial crisis", when the real issue is the…
Self‐Fulfilling Prophecy
The logic of self‐fulfilling prophecy – a false definition of a situation that evokes a new behavior that makes the original false conception become true – obtains in large and small historical events, in politics and in economics, in education, in financial cycles, as well as in matters of war and terrorism. This logic follows from what sociologist Robert Merton called the Thomas theorem: If men define situations as real, they are real in their …
How terrorism ends – and does not end: The Basque case
This article examines the end of ETA (Euskadi ta Askatasuna “Euskadi and Freedom”) in the light of the literature on “how terrorism ends”. Was it the result of police repression, defeat, negotiation, elimination, tactical success? Was it the result of military failure but not defeat? What role did the rebellion of its own social base play? Was it, in the end, a case of political transformation? The discourse of “unilateralism” developed by the Ba…
A Tale of Two Museums
Drones and fantasy in US counterterrorism
How does US Counterterrorism know that the hundreds of people killed by drones and justified as “signature” strikes (based on their pattern of life), of whom not even the names were known, are in fact actual or potential terrorists? It knows essentially by an act of fantasy. Fantasy is not understood here as equivalent to the “not-real” in some form of representational realism, but rather as constitutive of the very real. The paper examines the w…
Drones, witches and other flying objects: The force of fantasy in US counterterrorism
A key concern for critical terrorism studies is the extent to which counterterrorism contributes to the promotion and perpetuation of terrorism. When dealing with either the events leading to 9/11 or the current anti-Muslim movements in Europe, we owe serious attention to the self-generating process by which terrorism and counterterrorism operate as an edge that simultaneously and constitutively links and separates both aspects of the phenomenon.…
The terror/counterterror edge: When non -terror becomes a terrorism problem and real terror cannot be detected by counterterrorism
On the basis of cases such as the recent ban on the building of minarets in Switzerland or the prohibition on wearing a burka in France and the Netherlands, and the passage of terrorism legislation in various European countries in which there has never been a terrorism problem, as well as the recent history of counterterrorism in the United States, this paper examines how non-terror can become a terrorism problem and non-risk ideologically risky,…
Terrorism: The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Response to Richard Jackson
The terrorist subject: Terrorism studies and the absent subjectivity
Keywords: terrorism literaturesubjectivitydiscoursedetective fictiondesirepurposesuicidecritical terrorism studies
In love with Puppy: Flowers, architecture, art, and the art of irony
Jeff Koons's installation, Puppy, symbolizes the move from modernism to postmodernism in contemporary Basque culture. It constitutes a break from the modernist aesthetics of artists such as Jorge Oteiza and Eduardo Chillida. The article argues that Puppy can only be understood from an ironic perspective. The subversive potential of irony in Basque culture is contextualized in this article
Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology
An alternative anthropology: exercising the preferential option of the poor / Leigh Binford
Anthropologists, artists, terrorists: The Basque holiday from history
The Self-Fulfilling Prophecies of Counterterrorism
Research Article| January 01 2003 The Self-Fulfilling Prophecies of Counterterrorism Joseba Zulaika Joseba Zulaika Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2003) 2003 (85): 191–200. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2003-85-191 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Joseba Zulaika; The Self-Fulfilling Prophecies of Counterterrorism. Radical History Review 1 January 2003; 2…
Ruminations on Political Violence
"Daddy, Let's Talk"
What follows are brief selections from a transcript of taped conversations between an anthropologist father, Joseba Zulaika, and his six‐year‐old daughter, Garazi. They are real life dialogues. They are offered as an ethnographic instance of the experience of anthropologists and members of their families shifting between field and home. In this case, they concern two worlds, the Basque Country in Spain as thefieldwork and native country, and Reno…
On Terrorism Discourse: Reply to Greenwood
Specificities: Tropics of Terror: From Guernica's 'Natives' to Global 'Terrorists
(1998). Specificities: Tropics of Terror: From Guernica's 'Natives' to Global 'Terrorists' Social Identities: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 93-108
Paradoxes of religion and terrorism
Bruce Lincoln (ed.). Religion, Rebellion, Revolution: An Interdisciplinary & Cross‐Cultural Collection of Essays. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. Pp.311. $35. ISBN 0–312–67061–3 Bruce Lincoln, Discourse and the Construction of Society: Comparative Studies of Myth, Ritual, and Classification. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. Pp.238, illus. ISBN 0–19–505757–0
Terror, totem, and taboo: Reporting on a report
Should we analytically constitute or dissolve the category of terrorism? The Basque case is adduced to illustrate the dynamics of constructing and deconstructing a reified notion of terrorism. Two approaches are confronted: the legal‐technical work of a committee of terrorism experts and the ethnographic work of an anthropologist. The experts’ position that social science should be subservient to police and intelligence counter‐insurgency is ques…
The Making of the Basque Nation
On the Interpretation of Terrorist Violence: ETA and the Basque Political Process
Political violence, labeled loosely as 'terrorism,' is a seemingly ubiquitous factor in twentieth-century world politics. Coping with it has become a major preoccupation of governments and is the object of considerable international cooperation among them. The purpose of this paper is to examine the case of ETA (Euskadi ta Askatasuna or Basque Country and Freedom) within the Basque nationalist movement in order to underscore several of the concep…
Basque Violence: Metaphor and Sacrament
Basque Violence: Metaphor and Sacrament
Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology
An alternative anthropology: exercising the preferential option of the poor / Leigh Binford
Basque Violence: Metaphor and Sacrament
The terrorist subject: Terrorism studies and the absent subjectivity
Keywords: terrorism literaturesubjectivitydiscoursedetective fictiondesirepurposesuicidecritical terrorism studies
How terrorism ends – and does not end: The Basque case
This article examines the end of ETA (Euskadi ta Askatasuna “Euskadi and Freedom”) in the light of the literature on “how terrorism ends”. Was it the result of police repression, defeat, negotiation, elimination, tactical success? Was it the result of military failure but not defeat? What role did the rebellion of its own social base play? Was it, in the end, a case of political transformation? The discourse of “unilateralism” developed by the Ba…
On the Interpretation of Terrorist Violence: ETA and the Basque Political Process
Political violence, labeled loosely as 'terrorism,' is a seemingly ubiquitous factor in twentieth-century world politics. Coping with it has become a major preoccupation of governments and is the object of considerable international cooperation among them. The purpose of this paper is to examine the case of ETA (Euskadi ta Askatasuna or Basque Country and Freedom) within the Basque nationalist movement in order to underscore several of the concep…
Drones, witches and other flying objects: The force of fantasy in US counterterrorism
A key concern for critical terrorism studies is the extent to which counterterrorism contributes to the promotion and perpetuation of terrorism. When dealing with either the events leading to 9/11 or the current anti-Muslim movements in Europe, we owe serious attention to the self-generating process by which terrorism and counterterrorism operate as an edge that simultaneously and constitutively links and separates both aspects of the phenomenon.…
Basque Violence: Metaphor and Sacrament
The Self-Fulfilling Prophecies of Counterterrorism
Research Article| January 01 2003 The Self-Fulfilling Prophecies of Counterterrorism Joseba Zulaika Joseba Zulaika Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2003) 2003 (85): 191–200. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2003-85-191 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Joseba Zulaika; The Self-Fulfilling Prophecies of Counterterrorism. Radical History Review 1 January 2003; 2…
Response to Richard Jackson
Specificities: Tropics of Terror: From Guernica's 'Natives' to Global 'Terrorists
(1998). Specificities: Tropics of Terror: From Guernica's 'Natives' to Global 'Terrorists' Social Identities: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 93-108
Basque Violence: Metaphor and Sacrament
Basque Violence: Metaphor and Sacrament
The Making of the Basque Nation
On the Interpretation of Terrorist Violence: ETA and the Basque Political Process
Political violence, labeled loosely as 'terrorism,' is a seemingly ubiquitous factor in twentieth-century world politics. Coping with it has become a major preoccupation of governments and is the object of considerable international cooperation among them. The purpose of this paper is to examine the case of ETA (Euskadi ta Askatasuna or Basque Country and Freedom) within the Basque nationalist movement in order to underscore several of the concep…
Terror, totem, and taboo: Reporting on a report
Should we analytically constitute or dissolve the category of terrorism? The Basque case is adduced to illustrate the dynamics of constructing and deconstructing a reified notion of terrorism. Two approaches are confronted: the legal‐technical work of a committee of terrorism experts and the ethnographic work of an anthropologist. The experts’ position that social science should be subservient to police and intelligence counter‐insurgency is ques…
Paradoxes of religion and terrorism
Bruce Lincoln (ed.). Religion, Rebellion, Revolution: An Interdisciplinary & Cross‐Cultural Collection of Essays. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. Pp.311. $35. ISBN 0–312–67061–3 Bruce Lincoln, Discourse and the Construction of Society: Comparative Studies of Myth, Ritual, and Classification. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. Pp.238, illus. ISBN 0–19–505757–0
"Daddy, Let's Talk"
What follows are brief selections from a transcript of taped conversations between an anthropologist father, Joseba Zulaika, and his six‐year‐old daughter, Garazi. They are real life dialogues. They are offered as an ethnographic instance of the experience of anthropologists and members of their families shifting between field and home. In this case, they concern two worlds, the Basque Country in Spain as thefieldwork and native country, and Reno…
On Terrorism Discourse: Reply to Greenwood
Specificities: Tropics of Terror: From Guernica's 'Natives' to Global 'Terrorists
(1998). Specificities: Tropics of Terror: From Guernica's 'Natives' to Global 'Terrorists' Social Identities: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 93-108
Ruminations on Political Violence
Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology
An alternative anthropology: exercising the preferential option of the poor / Leigh Binford
Anthropologists, artists, terrorists: The Basque holiday from history
The Self-Fulfilling Prophecies of Counterterrorism
Research Article| January 01 2003 The Self-Fulfilling Prophecies of Counterterrorism Joseba Zulaika Joseba Zulaika Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2003) 2003 (85): 191–200. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2003-85-191 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Joseba Zulaika; The Self-Fulfilling Prophecies of Counterterrorism. Radical History Review 1 January 2003; 2…
In love with Puppy: Flowers, architecture, art, and the art of irony
Jeff Koons's installation, Puppy, symbolizes the move from modernism to postmodernism in contemporary Basque culture. It constitutes a break from the modernist aesthetics of artists such as Jorge Oteiza and Eduardo Chillida. The article argues that Puppy can only be understood from an ironic perspective. The subversive potential of irony in Basque culture is contextualized in this article
The terrorist subject: Terrorism studies and the absent subjectivity
Keywords: terrorism literaturesubjectivitydiscoursedetective fictiondesirepurposesuicidecritical terrorism studies
Terrorism: The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Response to Richard Jackson
The terror/counterterror edge: When non -terror becomes a terrorism problem and real terror cannot be detected by counterterrorism
On the basis of cases such as the recent ban on the building of minarets in Switzerland or the prohibition on wearing a burka in France and the Netherlands, and the passage of terrorism legislation in various European countries in which there has never been a terrorism problem, as well as the recent history of counterterrorism in the United States, this paper examines how non-terror can become a terrorism problem and non-risk ideologically risky,…
Drones, witches and other flying objects: The force of fantasy in US counterterrorism
A key concern for critical terrorism studies is the extent to which counterterrorism contributes to the promotion and perpetuation of terrorism. When dealing with either the events leading to 9/11 or the current anti-Muslim movements in Europe, we owe serious attention to the self-generating process by which terrorism and counterterrorism operate as an edge that simultaneously and constitutively links and separates both aspects of the phenomenon.…
Drones and fantasy in US counterterrorism
How does US Counterterrorism know that the hundreds of people killed by drones and justified as “signature” strikes (based on their pattern of life), of whom not even the names were known, are in fact actual or potential terrorists? It knows essentially by an act of fantasy. Fantasy is not understood here as equivalent to the “not-real” in some form of representational realism, but rather as constitutive of the very real. The paper examines the w…
A Tale of Two Museums
How terrorism ends – and does not end: The Basque case
This article examines the end of ETA (Euskadi ta Askatasuna “Euskadi and Freedom”) in the light of the literature on “how terrorism ends”. Was it the result of police repression, defeat, negotiation, elimination, tactical success? Was it the result of military failure but not defeat? What role did the rebellion of its own social base play? Was it, in the end, a case of political transformation? The discourse of “unilateralism” developed by the Ba…
Self‐Fulfilling Prophecy
The logic of self‐fulfilling prophecy – a false definition of a situation that evokes a new behavior that makes the original false conception become true – obtains in large and small historical events, in politics and in economics, in education, in financial cycles, as well as in matters of war and terrorism. This logic follows from what sociologist Robert Merton called the Thomas theorem: If men define situations as real, they are real in their …
The Dark God: The Sacrifice of Sacrifice
The Frazerian question of murder turned into ritual sacrifice is foundational to cultural anthropology. Frazer described the antinomian figure of a king, who was, at once, a priest and a murderer. Generations of anthropologists have studied sacrifice in ethnographic contexts and theorized about its religious significance. But sacrifice itself may turn into a problem, and René Girard wrote about "the sacrificial crisis", when the real issue is the…
La guerra de drones: Caza, Fantasía Y El Arte De Asesinar
El artículo examina la guerra de drones como una forma de caza llevada a cabo por vía satélite desde la base militar aérea de Creech cerca de Las Vegas. El evento revelador inicial es el trauma que sufren los pilotos de drones debido a la intimidad visual con la que contemplan las consecuencias fatídicas de sus acciones. Se analiza el papel de la fantasía en el comportamiento de caza de los pilotos y en la retroalimentación mutua entre terrorismo…
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