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Kin-Work in a Time of Jihad: Sustaining Bonds of Filiation and Care for Tunisian Foreign Combatants
Cultural Anthropology ( IF 2.526 ) Pub Date : 2018-11-10 , DOI: 10.14506/ca33.4.07
Alyssa Miller

In this article, I examine the politics of kin-work performed by families of Tunisian foreign combatants, whose sons were recruited to jihadi militias following the 2011 Arab Spring. Here, I refer to a form of affective labor that engenders kinship relations through the performance of intentional acts. In the context of postrevolutionary Tunisia, where the state is currently embroiled in a domestic war against terror, families of foreign combatants perform such kin-work to make a moral claim on the state to assist them in repatriating their sons. In doing so, they must work against security discourses that define their sons as terrorists, thereby excising them from the rights-bearing category of the human. Nevertheless, kin-work is more than just a political strategy. I thus also attend to more intimate registers of kin-work, where it serves as a method for inhabiting uncertainty and providing care for absent kin.

中文翻译:

圣战时期的亲属工作:维持顺从纽带和对突尼斯外国战斗人员的关怀

在本文中,我研究了突尼斯外国战斗人员的家庭从事的亲属政治,他们的儿子在2011年阿拉伯之春之后被招募到圣战民兵手中。在这里,我指的是一种情感劳动形式,它通过有意行为的执行而产生亲属关系。在革命后的突尼斯的背景下,该国目前卷入了一场反恐的国内战争中,外国战斗人员的家人从事这种亲属工作,以道义上的姿态要求国家协助他们遣返儿子。在这样做时,他们必须反对将他们的儿子定义为恐怖分子的安全话语,从而将他们从人类的有权利类别中解脱出来。然而,亲属关系不仅仅是一种政治策略。因此,我也参加了更亲密的亲戚登记,
更新日期:2018-11-10
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