"Resisting War considers the political, historical, and practical dimensions of conscientious objection through an examination of the Turkish antiwar movement. In a challenge to conventional understandings of conscientious objection in political theory-too often absorbed into the discourse of "civil disobedience" and thought of as an individual, private, and apolitical act-Pinar Kemerli proposes that conscientious objection is best understood as a radical political practice that fundamentally challenges the states right to coerce individuals to partake in wars deemed unjust. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Turkey, Kemerli presents a newer form of Muslim conscientious objection emerging from the Turkish-Kurdish political-theological context and which has echoes of earlier Black Muslim vernacular interpretations of this refusal in the United States. In an effort to recover the political imaginaries, concepts, and possibilities embedded in conscientious objection, Kemerli tracks the many ways this form of refusal readily taps into the diverse histories and paradigms of anticolonialism and anti-imperialism and how it ultimately raises its own distinct contestation of state sovereignty and nationalist allegiance, of imperial and colonial wars as well as the normative religiosities that claim people in the service of militarized nationalisms"-- Provided by publisher.