Modes of accountability: events of closure, rites of repetition -- On money and the memory of loss -- Public apologies, dignity, and performative redress -- Reconciliation after ethnic cleansing: listening, retribution, affiliation -- The state of war crimes following the Israel-Hezbollah War -- Terror compassion, and the limits of identification: counter-transference and rites of commemoration in Lebanon -- Responsibility after military intervention: what is regime change? What is occupation? -- Does the United States want democratization in Iraq? Anthropological reflections on the export of political form -- The external ascription of defeat and collective punishment -- What do election rituals mean? Representation, sacrifice, and cynical reason -- Politics without a head: is the love parade a new form of political identification? Is the United States Europe's other?
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