Feminist activists are as implicated in empire as soldiers are

Evidence

In bringing together case studies that explore the eviction of Muslims from political community, I hope to stress the various paths through which we are drawn into the project of empire. Feminist activists, no less than soldiers at Abu Ghraib, are invited to defend country and civilization and to join in the creation of a world that requires camps. What these chapters show is that no one stands outside of empire. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 65

Categorization

• APHORISMS: The claim that no one stands outside of empire reads as durable life-advice about moral complicity that survives well beyond this specific case.
• XREF: Resonates with Abu Ghraib material and with the reader’s existing notes on how high ideals underwrite violent practices. — connects to: NGOs function as imperial weapons in feminist guise in the Afghan war — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 311; Imperial feminism justifies conquest without improving colonized women’s conditions — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 159; Cromer opposed women’s suffrage in Britain while invoking women’s rights to justify empire — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 157