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Empire's accidents : law, lies, and sovereignty in the "war on terror" in Pakistan

Author: Maira Hayat
Edition/Format:   Article : English
Publication:Critique of anthropology. Volume 40, number 1 (March 2020), Seiten [49]-80, Illustrationen und Karten
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This essay tracks the relationship between the legal and the lethal in the Central Intelligence Agency's operations in Pakistan as part of the U.S.-led war on terror. I juxtapose an account of an automobile accident in Lahore on 26 January 2011 involving the Blackwater employee, Raymond Davis, with a drone strike in the North Waziristan Agency in Pakistan's (former) Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), the  Read more...
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Document Type: Article
All Authors / Contributors: Maira Hayat
OCLC Number: 1153332218
Responsibility: Maira Hayat (Stanford University USA).

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This essay tracks the relationship between the legal and the lethal in the Central Intelligence Agency's operations in Pakistan as part of the U.S.-led war on terror. I juxtapose an account of an automobile accident in Lahore on 26 January 2011 involving the Blackwater employee, Raymond Davis, with a drone strike in the North Waziristan Agency in Pakistan's (former) Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), the day after Davis was released by a court in Pakistan. I examine these "sovereign accidents" as articulations of the legal, political and democratic, and as sites upon which to (re)build understandings of sovereignty and its flourishes. Contrary to the popular tendency to see FATA as a marginal border region, that quintessential space of exception, I examine the FATA as jurisdiction. I thread together political discourse and practice in the U.S. and Pakistan, and by examining media coverage and litigation around the accidents, I show how a question of freedom of information in one setting is a question of life itself in another setting. At stake is the meaning and valence of law, the political, and the promise of postcolonial sovereignty

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