Conference: re-orienting critical terrorism studies

About the Conference:

Critical Terrorism Studies has witnessed a growing engagement with decolonial and postcolonial perspectives over the past years that have challenged the continued, even if inadvertent, Eurocentrism of the discipline and its dominant approaches. Despite these advances, the field continues to grapple with enduring forms of Eurocentrism in its conceptual frameworks, research agendas, and scholarly conversations. It is therefore time for CTS to consider a more radical re-orientation of the direction it has been taking since its foundation. 

In light of this, we are calling for an initiative that bridges the fields of CTS and Critical Muslims Studies (CMS). CMS has developed a rich body of scholarship that interrogates the racialisation of Muslim identities, the colonial and imperial structures shaping contemporary governance, and the epistemic conditions through which “Muslimness” is produced as a problem within global politics. Orientalist narratives of the Global War on Terror produce the ‘terrorist’ as an ahistorical and violent stranger-figure bound to an ethnically and religiously homogenous community without political will or desire while justifying death and destruction in Muslim majority countries. Muslim and Arab futurism however, in acts of refusal, speculation and reimagination seek to open spaces for world-making of more just and desecuritised futures for communities that continue to live through catastrophe and crisis. In so doing, these approaches re-examine what it means to be a political subject for those subject to ongoing exclusion, dehumanisation and delegitimisation.

Program:

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Registration:

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More information:

Learn more about the Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group.