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Genealogies of Terrorism - Revolution, State Violence, Empire (Hardcover)
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Genealogies of Terrorism - Revolution, State Violence, Empire (Hardcover)
Series: New Directions in Critical Theory, 66
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What is terrorism? What ought we to do about it? And why is it
wrong? We think we have clear answers to these questions. But acts
of violence, like U.S. drone strikes that indiscriminately kill
civilians, and mass shootings that become terrorist attacks when
suspects are identified as Muslim, suggest that definitions of
terrorism are always contested. In Genealogies of Terrorism, Verena
Erlenbusch-Anderson rejects attempts to define what terrorism is in
favor of a historico-philosophical investigation into the
conditions under which uses of this contested term become
meaningful. The result is a powerful critique of the power
relations that shape how we understand and theorize political
violence. Tracing discourses and practices of terrorism from the
French Revolution to late imperial Russia, colonized Algeria, and
the post-9/11 United States, Erlenbusch-Anderson examines what we
do when we name something terrorism. She offers an important
corrective to attempts to develop universal definitions that assure
semantic consistency and provide normative certainty, showing that
terrorism means many different things and serves a wide range of
political purposes. In the tradition of Michel Foucault's
genealogies, Erlenbusch-Anderson excavates the history of
conceptual and practical uses of terrorism and maps the
historically contingent political and material conditions that
shape their emergence. She analyzes the power relations that make
different modes of understanding terrorism possible and reveals
their complicity in justifying the exercise of sovereign power in
the name of defending the nation, class, or humanity against the
terrorist enemy. Offering an engaged critique of terrorism and the
mechanisms of social and political exclusion that it enables,
Genealogies of Terrorism is an empirically grounded and
philosophically rigorous critical history with important political
implications.
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