Overview
- Analyses the securitisation of Islam and Muslims in South Africa
- Confirms that Islam and Muslims in South Africa were constructed as security threats incrementally over an extended period
- Illustrates that the securitisation reproduces knowledge constructed in Western societies to promote specific interests
Part of the book series: Islam and Global Studies (IGS)
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About this book
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 equatingthem with terrorism.
This book illustrates that such securitisation reproduces partisan knowledge that promote Western interests.
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About the author
Dr Mohamed Natheem Hendricks, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Education, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa. His interest in security matters was sparked by debates related to Regional, Water and Human Security.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Manufacturing Terrorism in Africa
Book Subtitle: The Securitisation of South African Muslims
Authors: Mohamed Natheem Hendricks
Series Title: Islam and Global Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5626-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-5625-8Published: 04 July 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-5626-5Published: 03 July 2020
Series ISSN: 2524-7328
Series E-ISSN: 2524-7336
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 247
Topics: International Security Studies, Terrorism and Political Violence, Conflict Studies, Terrorism