Manufacturing Terrorism in Africa - The Securitisation of South African Muslims (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)

This book uses Securitisation Theory to explore how Muslims have been constructed as a security issue in Africa after the 9/11 attacks in the United States. These attacks became the rationale for the US's Global War on Terror (GWOT). The centrality of Africa as an arena to execute the GWOT is the focus of this book. This book explores, particularly, how western-centred security discourses around Muslims has permeated South African security discourse in the post-apartheid period. It claims that the popular press and the local think-tank community were critical knowledge-sites that imported rather than interrogated debates which have underpinned policy-initiatives such as the GWOT. Such theorisation seems contrary to the original architects of securitisation theory who maintain that issues become security concerns when institutional voices declare these as such. However, this book confirms that non-institutional voices have securitised the African Muslims by equating them with terrorism. This book illustrates that such securitisation reproduces partisan knowledge that promote Western interests.

General

Imprint:	Springer Verlag, Singapore
Country of origin:	Singapore
Series:	Islam and Global Studies
Release date:	July 2020
First published:	2020
Authors:	Mohamed Natheem Hendricks
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	247
Edition:	1st ed. 2020
ISBN-13:	978-981-15-5625-8
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Peace studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Crime & criminology > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > Terrorism, freedom fighters, armed struggle > General
LSN:	981-15-5625-3
Barcode:	9789811556258

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