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100 1 _aMOHAMMED Ilyas
245 _aDecolonialisation and the terrorism industry/
_cIlyas Mohammed
260 _c2022
520 _aDecolonising academia has gained much traction in some global north and global south countries over the last few years, resulting in initiatives such as decolonising the curricula. However, the terrorism industry as a whole has so far escaped such calls. The industry has a long and deep relationship with global north countries, such as the US. The industry produces a range of surveillance and military technologies and knowledge on political violence. The knowledge is often used to develop counter-terrorism strategies that are used as part of global north democratising projects to ensure that global north neo-liberal, political and cultural ideals are the future for global south countries, making them manageable. Therefore, an important question needs to be posed, which is, can terrorism studies be decolonised? I believe that terrorism studies can be decolonised but only by developing decolonial terrorism studies. However, I am aware that some governments and terrorism scholars, institutions, NGOs and the military and tech industrial complex may be against this idea for prejudicial, political, economic and epistemic reasons. Others may favour "friendly" decolonization, as a way to maintain existing power structures, control and epistemic direction of terrorism studies.
650 _aEXTREMISM
650 _aTERRORISM
650 _aMUSLIM
650 _aCOLONIALISM
_xCOLONIALITY
650 _aDECOLONISATION
773 _aCritical Studies on Terrorism:
_gVol 15, No 2, June 2022, pp. 417-440 (112)
598 _aTERRORISM
856 _uhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17539153.2022.2047440
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