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Russell, Aidan

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“…Similarly, Russell (2019) has highlighted a conceptualization over the regimes of silence by exploring the dimensions of creation, enforcement, and transformation (of silences). Based on this, Russel has designated the regimes of silence as a “matter of social reality as well as a political creation” (10) where the power manifests between these intersecting fields.…”

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The violent construction of silence(s): The case of targeted killings in North Waziristan, Pakistan

Khan

2024

Violence: An International Journal

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The threat of recurrence of violence remains a protracted concern in post-conflict contexts. This article contributes to the literature on post-conflict violence by analyzing a specific phenomenon that has characterized North Waziristan: the “Taliban target killing campaign” of civilians. The article argues that the targeted killings in (post-conflict) North Waziristan are a pre-mediated and calculated strategy employed by the militants to create space for their resurgence by silencing dissent through extortion, threats and killing of the locals. Exploring post-conflict violence, the article draws attention to the application of de-securitization in North Waziristan where “silent institutional” de-securitizations (i.e., state silence) are adopted to maintain the post-conflict fragile peace to prevent the risk of slippage into re-securitization. In explicating this, the article contributes by identifying three forms of silences: (i) silencing (by killing), (ii) state silence, and (iii) strategic silence. Doing so also helps to elaborate the function, meaning, and consequence of silence(s) in post-conflict contexts.

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The violent construction of silence(s): The case of targeted killings in North Waziristan, Pakistan

Khan

2024

Violence: An International Journal

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“…These personal recollections, although anonymous, stand in contrast to the general absence of shared memories about the riots, as both the state and civilians remain silent about these events. Drawing on insights from research into politically repressed social memories (Ben-Ze’ev et al, 2010; Russell, 2019a; Winichakul, 2020), this article offers a thematic analysis of some of the stories and memories shared anonymously by Indonesian civilians about these riots that are rarely discussed.…”

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“…In order to contextualise these results from the anonymous survey, we first give a brief background on the May 1998 riots, their sensitive and contentious position within contemporary Indonesian political discourse, as well as some of the history of anti-Chinese racism and violence. We then describe respondents’ memories in a context where the topic is taboo, and where “regimes of silence” limit not just what can be said openly but what is possible to discuss even privately within communities and families (Russell, 2019b). To that end, we outline some of the responses received in the survey, taken from open-text boxes with unlimited characters.…”

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Revisiting the May 1998 Riots in Indonesia: Civilians and Their Untold Memories

Himawan

Pohlman

Louis

2022

Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs

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This paper examines the recollections of civilians about the May 1998 riots in Indonesia, as told in an anonymous online survey. These riots caused the deaths of an estimated 1000 people and saw targeted attacks on Indonesia's ethnic Chinese community, including state-led mass sexual violence against Chinese-Indonesian women and girls. Despite their scale, there has never been any official redress for these riots and they remain a taboo topic in Indonesia, rarely discussed publicly. Little is known about how Indonesians remember these events, with research into the personal or collective memories about the riots challenging, given the public silencing by the government. Here, we present findings from an anonymous survey completed by 235 Indonesians in which they revealed sometimes deeply personal memories about the riots. Examined thematically, these memories both confirm general understandings of the riots and reveal novel information about how communities coped during the violence.

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The violent construction of silence(s): The case of targeted killings in North Waziristan, Pakistan

The violent construction of silence(s): The case of targeted killings in North Waziristan, Pakistan

Revisiting the May 1998 Riots in Indonesia: Civilians and Their Untold Memories

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