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Rachel Rosenbaum
The University of Arizona, Anthropology, Graduate Student
- Rachel is a doctoral student in Sociocultural Anthropology at the University of Arizona. Her research interests geographically focus in the Middle East, specifically Lebanon. Sh... moreRachel is a doctoral student in Sociocultural Anthropology at the University of Arizona. Her research interests geographically focus in the Middle East, specifically Lebanon. She is currently studying the politics of infrastructure in Beirut, Lebanon and how collectives form to create infrastructural workarounds in a city accustomed to infrastructural breakdown. For her Master's research, Rachel conducted fieldwork in Beirut, investigating historically shifting border policies between Syria and Lebanon, attitudes of xenophobia, and the racialization of Syrian refugees. Rachel holds a B.A. in Anthropology and Global Studies from Colby College.edit
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Data management plan for qualitative research developed for submission to the NSF's Cultural Anthropology DDRI grant competition.
In the past 15 years, over half of all terrorist attacks have occurred in just five countries: Afghanistan, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Syria (Global Terrorism Index 2016). Despite the geographic specificity of terror attacks and the... more
In the past 15 years, over half of all terrorist attacks have occurred in just five countries: Afghanistan, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Syria (Global Terrorism Index 2016). Despite the geographic specificity of terror attacks and the intimate links between zones of political instability, violence, and conflict to the proliferation of terrorism, widespread panic and anxiety about terrorist attacks have created a narrative of proximity and critical intimacy between “terrorism” and Euro-American spaces. This paper will aim to explore and deconstruct the use that results from this narrative of “terrorism” as a racialized term in American discourse and will interrogate the consequences of associating “terrorism” and “terrorist” with specific understandings of violence and bodies. As I will show, the understanding of a terrorist as related to “radical Islam” and as a manifestation of “jihad” has become so natural that it has defined the ways in which Americans categorize, publicize, and ...