As India increasingly gets synonymized as Hindu, and academic-activist works interrogate Hindutva, we must investigate the pre- and post-9/11 impact…
Invisibilizing Hindu terrorism through the “War on Terror”
war on terror
Muslims and the American political imaginary during a pandemic
The fact that American Muslims have not been singled out during the current pandemic—particularly when viewed in light of the…
Bigging Bosnia up
As a book about the lives of “Arab” fighters in Bosnia this is a fascinating study. Its problems arise from…
Social drama, universalisms’ political violence, and transnational law
In a perhaps somewhat contrapuntal response to the provocation to see the broader world differently than we may otherwise, as…
Looking imperial universalism in the eye
In his study of the jihad in Bosnia, Darryl Li performs what might be considered a “radical” move of his…
Decolonizing universalisms
Darryl Li’s book takes the experience of multiple projects of humanitarian interventions in Bosnia during the 1990s as a laboratory…
The Universal Enemy—An introduction
In the introductory essay to this forum on his book, Darryl Li describes how instead of positing jihad or Muslims…
Trafficking as terror
The “war on terror” and the “war on trafficking,” two seemingly separate discourses, have become interwoven in recent years, castigating…