Manufacturing Terrorism in Africa: The Securitisation of South African Muslims

✍ Scribed by Mohamed Natheem Hendricks

Publisher: Springer Singapore;Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2020
Tongue: English
Leaves: 257
Series: Islam and Global Studies
Edition: 1st ed.
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xvi
Prolegomenon: The White Widow—The Kenyan Westgate Mall Attack (Mohamed Natheem Hendricks)....Pages 1-16
The United States: Pivotal in the Terrorism Debate in Africa (Mohamed Natheem Hendricks)....Pages 17-43
Conceptualising Securitisation (Mohamed Natheem Hendricks)....Pages 45-58
The Invisible College (Mohamed Natheem Hendricks)....Pages 59-92
Expertise, Epistemes and the Construction of a Suspect Community (Mohamed Natheem Hendricks)....Pages 93-136
Writing Insecurity: Representations of Muslims and Islam in the South African Print Media (Mohamed Natheem Hendricks)....Pages 137-175
Conclusion (Mohamed Natheem Hendricks)....Pages 177-199
Back Matter ....Pages 201-247

✦ Subjects

Political Science and International Relations; International Security Studies; Terrorism and Political Violence; Conflict Studies; Terrorism

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