Securing Africa

Post-9/11 Discourses on Terrorism

Securing Africa
  • Imprint: Ashgate
  • Published: February 2010
  • Format: 234 x 156 mm
  • Extent: 272 pages
  • Binding: Hardback
  • ISBN: 978-0-7546-7545-7
  • Price : £55.00 » Website price: £49.50
  • BL Reference: 363.3'25'096-dc22
  • LoC Control No: 2009033060
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  • Edited by Malinda S. Smith, University of Alberta, Canada

  • This meticulously researched, forcibly argued and accessibly written collection explores the many and complex ways in which Africa has been implicated in the discourses and politics of September 11, 2001. Written by key scholars based in leading institutions in Canada, the United States, the Middle East and Africa, the volume interrogates the impact of post-9/11 politics on Africa from many disciplinary perspectives, including political science, sociology, history, anthropology, religious studies and cultural studies. The essays analyze the impact of 9/11 and the 'war on terror' on political dissent and academic freedom; the contentious vocabulary of crusades, clash of civilizations, barbarism and 'Islamofascism'; alternative genealogies of local and global terrorism; extraordinary renditions to black sites and torture; human rights and insecurities; collapsed states and the development-security merger; and anti-terrorism policies from George W. Bush to Barack Obama. This is a much-needed meditation on historical and contemporary discourses on terrorism.

  • Contents: Preface: post 9/11: thinking critically, thinking dangerously; Selected bibliography; Terrorism thinking: '9/11 changed everything', Malinda S. Smith; Part 1 9/11, Terrorism and the Geopolitics of African Spaces: Terrorism Inc.: violence and counter-violence (of the letter), Mustapha B. Marrouchi; Beyond 9/11: histories and spaces of terrorism in Africa, Oladosu Afis Ayinde; Political Islam, Africa, and the 'war on terror', Iqbal Jhazbhay; Chasing shadows in the dunes: Islamist practice and counter-terrorist policy in West Africa's Sahara-Sahel zone, Mike McGovern; Human rights and insecurities: Muslims in post-9/11 East Africa, Faraj Abdallah Tamim and Malinda S. Smith. Part 2 Africa in Post-9/11 International Relations: The post-bipolarity, terrorism and implications for Africa, Adewale Aderemi; Securing access to African oil post-9/11: the Gulf of Guinea, Yves Alexandre Chouala; Kenya's foreign policy and challenges of terrorism in the post-Cold War, Babere Kerata Chacha and Muniko Zephaniah Marwa; Revisiting United States policy toward Somalia, Afyare Abdi Elmi; The emperor's new clothes? Terrorism thinking from George Bush to Barack Obama, Malinda S. Smith; Selected bibliography; Index.

  • About the Editor: Malinda S. Smith is Associate Professor, International Relations at the University of Alberta, Canada

  • Reviews: 'This is a welcome and pioneering attempt to assess some of the consequences and outcomes of the US-led war on terror on the people and states of the African continent. A fine example of the new critical approach to terrorism-related research, Securing Africa is important for its illumination of a neglected and misunderstood corner of the global war on terror, as well as the voice it gives to rarely-heard African perspectives. This book deserves a wide audience.'
    Richard Jackson, Aberystwyth University, UK

    ‘Securing Africa challenges some of the embedded orthodoxy in global security discourses. With Africa as its centerpiece, this volume offers illuminating and critical perspectives on the emerging and re-emerging linkages between terrorism, democracy, human rights and security in a post 9/11 World Order.’
    Obijiofor Aginam, United Nations University headquarters, Tokyo, Japan

  • This title is also available as an eBook, ISBN 978-0-7546-9967-5



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    Preface

    Index