Nadia Abuel Hajj is a professor of anthropology at Barnard College in Columbia University, co-director of the Center for Palestine Studies. Her book Combat Trauma explores imaginaries of war and citizenship in post 911 America. The Dig was produced by Alex Lewis, our associate producer is Jackson Roach; music by Jeffrey Brodsky.
Featuring Nadia Abu El-Haj on Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in Post-9/11 America. How the civil-military divide makes troops into super citizens and what it means that agents of state violence are turning to the grammar of identity politics—and more. The second in a two-part interview.
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