عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Country Code
IR
Number
294T
LANGUAGE OF THE ITEM
.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc
انگلیسی
COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION OR PRODUCTlON
Country of publication
IR
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Making death visible: Chechen female suicide bombers in an era of globalization
General Material Designation
[Thesis]
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Arizona State University: United States -- Arizona
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
: 2009
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
416 pages
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
Ph.D.
Body granting the degree
, Arizona State University: United States -- Arizona
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
Between 2000 and 2004 more than forty women from the Chechen Republic died either blowing themselves up or attempting to blow themselves up in acts of violence against the Russian state. From 2002 to 2004, women participated in every terrorist attack launched by Chechens. While Chechen men have engaged in suicide missions, it is only Chechen women who have donned the ominous 'suicide belt.' These women--labeled Black Widows in the Western press--seemingly appeared from nowhere; a band of female mercenaries emerging from a highly patriarchal culture in order to storm the West.This dissertation investigates the historical, social and political circumstances that fostered Chechen women's engagement in suicide bombing from 2000 to 2004. Although approximately fifteen percent of suicide bombers worldwide have been female, academic research by and large focuses on male actors. When research does focus on women, it relies on stereotypical conceptions of men as more war-like and women as the weaker sex in order to label women who engage in political violence as deviant. Further, despite the intrinsic involvement of the body in acts of suicide bombing, studies of terrorism often highlight the Cartesian divide between reason and the body, characterizing violent actors either as irrational --crazy with despair--or rational -- strategically defending their homeland. In life as lived, however, there is always a linkage among emotional, rational, and physical processes.This project attempts to fill these gaps in academic scholarship by interrogating the ways in which historical relationships between individual women's bodies and the collective Chechen body may be related to women's engagement in political violence. Rather than following a 'top down' approach that adheres to one particular method or discipline, this project studies Chechen women's engagement in political violence from a trans-disciplinary perspective. The research methods on which the project relies include historiography of Russo-Chechen engagement, discourse analysis of news media and websites, and in-depth, qualitative interviews with journalists, human rights activists, and Chechen people. Ultimately, the dissertation argues that suicide bombings by Chechen women were a manifestation of longstanding linkages between female bodies and the development of the nation state.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Cultural anthropology
Womens studies
Political science
Ethnic studies
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
Chechnya
Subject Term
Terrorism
Subject Term
Political violence
Subject Term
Suicide bombing
Subject Term
Women
Subject Term
Nationalism
Subject Term
Russia
Subject Term
Black Widows
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Banner, Francine
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Country
ایران
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