[Darryl] Li could not have set out a more difficult methodological task. To write an “ethnographic history from below–one that…
Texts, tales, transits: Archival method and the politics of listening
Bosnia
Solid ground (“Idioms of the left”)
It has been fascinating to read Darryl Li’s The Universal Enemy at a time when national boundaries—not to mention political…
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…