Precarious Archives: Juridified Erasure & the Diasporic Resistance of Afghan and Iranian Women in the Post-9/11 University
Where national security marks diasporic bodies for suspicion, the university marks them for erasure. After 9/11, Anglo-American higher education abandoned its pretensions of neutrality and transformed itself into an anticipatory carceral regime, where Afghan and Iranian women scholars became living counter-archives of exclusion. Their presence unsettles the juridical architectures