Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part 1. The Other Within

1. Hosting the Hostage: Hospitality, the Uyghur Other, and Chinese State-Imposed Peace

Timothy A. Grose

2. The Ubiquitous Other, or the Muslims of Assam: Is Peace Possible?

Yasmin Saikia

3. Bordering and Everyday Peace with the Other

Kathryn Cassidy

Part 2. The Marginal Other: Gender, Sexuality, and Race

4. Muslims in Italy: Rooting and Pluralism, Inequalities and Islamophobia

Fabio Perocco

5. Global North Homoimperialism and the Conundrum of Queer Asylum

Nikoli Attai

6. Unfree Muslims: Islamophobia and the (Im)Possibilities of Muslim Belonging in America

Chad Haines

7. Killing Machine: How Mexican and US States of Exception Turned Revolutionaries and Migrants into Bare Life, 1969–1996

Alexander Aviña

8. There Are No Signs: Feeling Black in a Post–Jim Crow America

Camille D. Burge

9. Building Bridges Between Queer and Normative Muslims

Maryam Khan

Part 3. Nature as Other: The Human and Non-human Relationship

10. “A Foothold in the Sheer Wall of the Future”: Extinction, Making Kin, and Imagining Peace in The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

Amit R. Baishya

11. The Earth as a Phobic Object: Negative Ecology and the Rise of Eco-Fascism

Frédéric Neyrat

12. “Peace” for Indigenous Peoples: Land-Based Visions of Reconciliation

Rebecca Tsosie

Afterword: Imagining People’s Peace

Chad Haines and Yasmin Saikia

Contributors