ABSTRACT
We live with the crushing presence of war. Not a single moment in the histories we remember has been devoid of war in the guise of its many qualifying names – economic, religious, civil, genocidal, national, colonial, and imperial; world and regional; wars over land, oil, water – and its long shadows of pain and reconstruction.
And the actual spilling of blood comes with belligerent imaginaries and declarations, such as the proclamation of a ‘clash of civilisations’, new political demarcation lines, and epistemological norms.
