Representing Jihad : the Appearing and Disappearing Radical.
The jihad has been at the centre of the West's securitization discourse for more than a decade. Theorists frequently use the jihadist as a discursive tool to further their military and market agendas, helped by Muslim interlocutors, who all too often play the role of the 'good' Muslim...
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Zed Books,
2012
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Homo islamicus : beyond 'good' and 'bad'
- The vanishing jihadist : bin Laden and the Arab revolutions
- Constructing the 'bad' Muslim : jihad, Orientalism and the militarization of Muslim lands
- Contextualizing 'bad' Muslims : jihad, globalization and anti-Orientalism
- Ree(a)l jihadists : the media-tion of intentions
- Recovering invisible traces : jihad and postcolonialism
- Humanism and Islam : jihad and postsecularism
- Conclusion. Universalization of universes of resistance.
