Nasser Abufarha
Biographic Data
| ID | 640932 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nasser Abufarha |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nasser |
| FAMILY NAME | Abufarha |
| SIGNATURE | ABUFARHA N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
War, Technology, Anthropology
Technologies of the allied warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan, such as remote-controlled drones and night vision goggles, allow the user to “virtualize” human targets. This coincides with increased civilian casualties and a perpetuation of the very insecurity these technologies are meant to combat. This concise volume of research and reflections from different regions across Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa, observes how anthropology…
Land of Symbols: Cactus, Poppies, Orange and Olive Trees in Palestine
This article examines the ways in which Palestinians experience belonging to a place and how these experiences and their related ideas and symbols inform social organization through their representation, performance, and manipulations over time. In particular, I explore the articulation of symbols and symbolic representations in relation to the Palestinian encounter with the Zionist project in Palestine starting from the early twentieth century t…
Suicide, Violence, and Cultural Conceptions of Martyrdom in Palestine
Neil L. Whitehead and Nasser Abufarha Suicide, Violence, and Cultural Conceptions of Martyrdom in Palestine MUCH OF THE SCHOLARLY DISCOURSE ON “ SUICIDE TERRORISM” FOCUSES on the political strategies of these acts of violence and fails to consider their cultural dimensions, which are key to understanding how these acts gain popular support and become potential individual motiva tions. These forms ofviolence are conceived in cultural forms relate…
Suicide, Violence, and Cultural Conceptions of Martyrdom in Palestine
Neil L. Whitehead and Nasser Abufarha Suicide, Violence, and Cultural Conceptions of Martyrdom in Palestine MUCH OF THE SCHOLARLY DISCOURSE ON “ SUICIDE TERRORISM” FOCUSES on the political strategies of these acts of violence and fails to consider their cultural dimensions, which are key to understanding how these acts gain popular support and become potential individual motiva tions. These forms ofviolence are conceived in cultural forms relate…
War, Technology, Anthropology
Technologies of the allied warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan, such as remote-controlled drones and night vision goggles, allow the user to “virtualize” human targets. This coincides with increased civilian casualties and a perpetuation of the very insecurity these technologies are meant to combat. This concise volume of research and reflections from different regions across Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa, observes how anthropology…
Land of Symbols: Cactus, Poppies, Orange and Olive Trees in Palestine
This article examines the ways in which Palestinians experience belonging to a place and how these experiences and their related ideas and symbols inform social organization through their representation, performance, and manipulations over time. In particular, I explore the articulation of symbols and symbolic representations in relation to the Palestinian encounter with the Zionist project in Palestine starting from the early twentieth century t…
Suicide, Violence, and Cultural Conceptions of Martyrdom in Palestine
Neil L. Whitehead and Nasser Abufarha Suicide, Violence, and Cultural Conceptions of Martyrdom in Palestine MUCH OF THE SCHOLARLY DISCOURSE ON “ SUICIDE TERRORISM” FOCUSES on the political strategies of these acts of violence and fails to consider their cultural dimensions, which are key to understanding how these acts gain popular support and become potential individual motiva tions. These forms ofviolence are conceived in cultural forms relate…
War, Technology, Anthropology
Technologies of the allied warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan, such as remote-controlled drones and night vision goggles, allow the user to “virtualize” human targets. This coincides with increased civilian casualties and a perpetuation of the very insecurity these technologies are meant to combat. This concise volume of research and reflections from different regions across Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa, observes how anthropology…
Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · History (2 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (2 works) · Middle East Politics and Society (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Ambiguity (1 works) · Ancient history (1 works)