Linos, Natalia. (2010). Reclaiming the social body through self-Directed violence:
Seeking anthropological understanding of suicide attacks. Anthropology Today, 26 (5).
According to Natalia Linos' 2010 article "Reclaiming the social body through self-directed violence: Seeking anthropological understanding of suicide attacks" from Anthropology Today, it is necessary to use a more rational, cooler academic lens to bring light as well as heat to the debate over the phenomenon of terrorist suicide attacks. While the emotionalism surrounding the issue is understandable, for Linos it often obscures the meaning and reasoning behind these suicidal gestures, and ultimately emotionalism impedes rather than enhances our ability to understand suicide bombing. Linos applies a Foucaultian analysis to the use of suicide bombing in the specific context of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
The body has traditionally been a vehicle of articulation for the powerless....
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