Postcolonial spaces and critical terrorism studies: towards a dialogic research agenda
This chapter draws upon ideas about spatiality in postcolonial work, including its metaphorical and material conceptualisations in order to highlight potential synergies between Critical Terrorism Studies (CTS) and postcolonial theory. To do so, the chapter performs two related tasks: first, it inte...
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| Medienart: | Druck Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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2024
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Methodologies in critical terrorism studies
Jahr: 2024, Seiten: 67-81 |
| Verfügbarkeit prüfen: | HBZ Gateway |
| Zusammenfassung: | This chapter draws upon ideas about spatiality in postcolonial work, including its metaphorical and material conceptualisations in order to highlight potential synergies between Critical Terrorism Studies (CTS) and postcolonial theory. To do so, the chapter performs two related tasks: first, it interrogates the so-called broadening and deepening agenda in CTS to pinpoint certain “epistemic fatigue” and problems therein, including concerning the lack of contributions from postcolonial and decolonial registers. Second, the chapter seeks to orient a potentially fruitful conversation between CTS and postcolonial theory. Thus, it explores the debate on counterterrorism efforts in Lake Chad Basin to illustrate the complexity and functions of spatiality and to render visible certain continuing logics underlying terrorism and counterterrorism in this context (and the Global South more widely). Approached in this way, the chapter argues that CTS research agenda (still) revolve around a seemingly Western-centric orbit which occludes the experiences, temporalities and geographies of violence of the Global South. It further demonstrates that, by reframing counterterrorism as a spatial practice, postcolonial approaches present CTS with alternative methodological and theoretical bearings. Thus, the following chapter contributes to facilitating important methodological and theoretical reflections – and interdisciplinary collaboration – in CTS and beyond. |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 79-81 |
| ISBN: | 9781032469591 |