At the Limits of Justice : Women of Colour on Terror

The fear and violence that followed the events of September 11, 2001 touched lives all around the world, even in places that few would immediately associate with the global war on terror. In At the Limits of Justice, twenty-nine contributors from six countries explore the proximity of terror in their own lives and in places ranging from Canada and the United States to Jamaica, Palestine/Israel, Australia, Guyana, Chile, Pakistan, and across the African continent. In this collection, female scholars of colour - including leading theorists on issues of indigeneity, race, and feminism - examine the political, social, and personal repercussions of the war on terror through contributions that range from testimony and poetry to scholarly analysis. Inspired by both the personal and the global impact of this violence within the war on terror, they expose the way in which the war on terror is presented as a distant and foreign issue at the same time that it is deeply present in the lives of women and others all around the world. An impassioned but rigorous examination of issues of race and gender in contemporary politics, At the Limits of Justice is also a call to create moral communities which will find terror and violence unacceptable. Suvendrini Perera is a professor in the Department of Communication and Cultural Studies at Curtin University. Sherene H. Razack is a professor in the Department of Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: At the Limits of Justice: Women of Colour on Terror (Suvendrini Perera and Sherene H. Razack) Section One: Mundane Terror/(Un)Liveable Lives Cover Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction. At the Limits of Justice: Women of Colour Theorize Terror Section One: Mundane Terror / (Un)Livable Lives 1 Introduction to Section One 2 Violence and Terror in a Colonized Country: Canada’s Indian Residential School System 3 Terrorism and the Birthing Body in Jerusalem 4 The Manufacture of Torture as Public Truth: The Case of Omar Khadr 5 Surveillance Effects: South Asian, Arab, and Afghan American Youth in the War on Terror 6 The Biopolitics of Christian Persecution Section Two: Violence in a Far Country: Other Women’s Lives 7 Introduction to Section Two 8 “Collateral Violence”: Women’s Rights and National Security in Pakistan’s War on Terror 9 Outsourcing Patriarchy: Feminist Encounters, Transnational Mediations, and the Crime of “Honour Killings” 10 Diasporas of Empire: Arab Americans and the Reverberations of War 11 Sovereignty, War on Terror, and Violence against Women Section Three: Terror and the Limits of Remembering 12 Introduction to Section Three 13 “Weeping Is Singing”: After the War, a Transnational Lament 14 Gone but Not Forgotten: Memorial Murals, Vigils, and the Politics of Popular Commemoration in Jamaica 15 “Lest We Forget”: Terror and the Politics of Commemoration in Guyana 16 “Tortured Bodies”: The Biopolitics of Torture and Truth in Chile Section Four: Thinking Humanitarianism / Thinking Terror 17 Introduction to Section Four 18 From the Northern Territory Emergency Response to Stronger Futures: Where Is the Evidence That Australian Aboriginal Women Are Leading Self-Determining Lives? 19 Power in/through Speaking of Terror: The Geopolitics and Anti-Politics of Discourses on Violence in Other Places 20 Africa, 9/11, and the Temporality and Spatiality of Race and Terror 21 Humanitarianism as Planetary Politics Section Five: Terror Circuits 22 Introduction to Section Five 23 Visual Colonial Economies and Slave Death in Modernity: Bin Laden’s Terror? 24 Viewing Violence in a Far Country: Abu Ghraib and Terror’s New Performativities 25 Fighting Terror: Race, Sex, and the Monstrosity of Islam Section Six: Theorizing (at) the Limits of Justice 26 Introduction to Section Six 27 In Terror, in Love, out of Time 28 Radical Praxis or Knowing (at) the Limits of Justice 29 Unsewing My Lips, Breathing My Voice: The Spoken and Unspoken Truth of Transnational Violence 30 Mori Cards: The Body Bags Installation Bibliography List of Contributors