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Dangerous Brown Men - Exploiting Sex, Violence and Feminism in the 'War on Terror' (Paperback)
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Dangerous Brown Men - Exploiting Sex, Violence and Feminism in the 'War on Terror' (Paperback)
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Why is the public presentation of the war on terror suffused with
sexualised racism? What does this tell us about ideas of gender,
sexuality, religious and political identity and the role of the
state in the Western powers? Can we diffuse inter-ethnic conflicts
and change the way the West pursues its security agenda by
understanding the role of sexualised racism in the war on terror?
In asking such questions, Gargi Bhattacharyya considers how the
concepts of imperialism, feminism, terror and security can be
applied, in order to build on the influential debates about the
sexualised character of colonialism. She examines the way in which
western imperial violence has been associated with the rhetoric of
rights and democracy - a project of bombing for freedom that has
called into question the validity of western conceptions of
democracy, rights and feminism. Such rhetoric has given rise to
actions that go beyond simply protecting western interests or
securing access to scarce resources and appear to be beyond
instrumental reason. The articulations of racism that appear with
the war on terror are animated by fears and sexual fantasies
inexplicable by rational interest alone. There can be no resolution
to this seemingly endless conflict without understanding the highly
sexualised racism that animates it. Such an understanding threatens
to pierce the heart of imperial relations, revealing their intense
contradictions and uncovering attempts to normalise violent
expropriation.
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