Witnessing “imperfect victims” (In)culpability, collaboration, and the “suffering subject”

After the 9/11 attacks, Pakistan's military government unleashed a program of extrajudicial detentions to surveil and track down “Islamic terrorists.” These men are known as the “missing” or “disappeared” persons in the movement mobilized by their families to protest the abductions. Ethnographi...

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Published in:	American ethnologist Vol. 49; no. 1; pp. 92 - 103
Main Author:	HUSSAIN, SALMAN
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Arlington Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.02.2022
Subjects:	Anthropology Armed forces Ethics Ethnographic research Ethnography Families & family life Grief Human rights Humanitarianism Islam Military regimes Missing persons Political power Questioning Sentence structure September 11 terrorist attacks-2001 Suffering Terrorists Victims Pakistan
ISSN:	0094-0496, 1548-1425
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