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On November 14, 2013, the U.S. Department of State labeled Boko Haram and a splinter group, Ansaru, operating in northern Nigeria, "foreign terrorist organizations" with links to al-Qa'ida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). This designation is debatable, since the groups are diffuse, with tendencies to split or engage other armed groups into violent actions, primarily focused on Nigerian national and state politics and the implementation of shari'a criminal codes. This essay offers two analytic perspectives on "states of emergency" in Nigeria and the affective, violent forms of "justice" that armed young men employed during the 2000 implementation of shari'a criminal codes in Kano State, important contexts for analyses of militant groups such as Boko Haram or Ansaru. One analysis is meant to capture the expressive aspects of justice, and the other presumes a-priori realms of public experience and understanding that mediate the suffering and the cultural, religious, and political forms of justice Muslim youths draw upon to make sense of their plight. Based on eight years of ethnographic research in northern Nigeria, I suggest the uneasy reliance in Nigeria on secular and religious legalism as well as on extrajudicial violence to assure "justice" (re)enacts real-virtual experiences of authorized violence as "justice" in Nigeria's heavily mediated publics.

Infrastructures -- Video documentary and rural public culture in ethnic China / Jenny Chio -- Engagemedia: the Gado Gado tactics of Indonesia's new social media / Patricia R. Zimmerman -- Wei Dianying and Xiao Quexing: technologies of "small" and trans-Chinese -- Cinematic practices / Chia-chi Wu -- Converging contents and platforms: Niconico video and Japan's media-mix ecology / Marc Steinberg -- In access: digital video and the user / Nishant Shah -- Intimacies -- Microsd-ing "Mewati videos": circulation and regulation of a subaltern-popular -- Media culture / Rahul Mukherjee and Abhigyan Singh -- Documenting "immigrant brides" in multicultural Taiwan / Tzu-hui Celina Hung -- Bollywood banned and the electrifying palmasutra: the sensory politics of love and -- Pornography in northern nigeria / Conerly Casey -- The Asianization of Heimat: Ming Wong's Asian German video works / Feng-Mei Heberer -- Speculations -- Politics in the age of youtube: degraded images and small-screen revolutions / S. V. Srinivas -- Pop cosmopolitics and k-pop video culture / Michelle Cho -- Videation: technological intimacy and the politics of global connection / Joshua Neves -- Staying alive: Imphal's HIV/AIDS video culture / Bishnupriya Ghosh -- "Everyone's property": video copying, poetry, and revolution in Arab West Asia / Kay Dickinson

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Genocide, Truth, Memory, and Representation: An Introduction -- Part 1. TRUTH/MEMORY/REPRESENTATION -- 1. What Is an Anthropology of Genocide? Reflections on Field Research with Maya Survivors in Guatemala -- 2. Perilous Outcomes: International Monitoring and the Perpetuation of Violence in Sudan -- 3. Whose Genocide? Whose Truth? Representations of Victim and Perpetrator in Rwanda -- Part 2. TRUTH/MEMORY/REPRESENTATION -- 4. A Politics of Silences: Violence, Memory, and Treacherous Speech in Post-1965 Bali -- 5. The Limits of Empathy: Emotional Anesthesia and the Museum of Corpses in Post-Holocaust Germany -- 6. Forgotten Guatemala: Genocide, Truth, and Denial in Guatemala's Oriente -- Part 3. TRUTH/MEMORY/REPRESENTATION -- 7. Addressing the Legacies of Mass Violence and Genocide in Indonesia and East Timor -- 8. Mediated Hostility: Media, Affective Citizenship, and Genocide in Northern Nigeria -- 9. Cleansed of Experience? Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and the Challenges of Anthropological Representation -- Epilogue: The Imagination of Genocide -- Contributors -- Index