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Knowing Al-Qaeda : the epistemology of terrorism / edited by Christina Hellmich and Andreas Behnke.

المساهم (المساهمين):نوع المادة : نصنصالسلاسل:Rethinking political and international theoryالناشر:Farnham ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2012]تاريخ حقوق النشر: ©2012وصف:x, 177 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmنوع المحتوى:
  • text
نوع الوسائط:
  • unmediated
نوع الناقل:
  • volume
تدمك:
  • 9781409423669
  • 1409423662
الموضوع:تصنيف مكتبة الكونجرس:
  • HV6432.5.Q2 K56 2012
المحتويات:
Introduction : al-Qaeda and terrorism as a challenge to knowledge / Andreas Behnke and Christina Hellmich -- 'Here come the Salafis' : the framing of al-Qaeda's ideology within terrorism research / Christina Hellmich -- Anxieties of global empire : politics of visibility epistemologies and 'terror' / Anna M. Agathangelou -- Conceptualizing al-Qaeda and US grand strategy / Lars Berger -- Measuring al-Qaeda : the metrics of terror / Rashmi Singh -- Fear as sovereign strategy and the popular tactics of laughter / Andreas Behnke -- The friend of my enemy : al-Qaeda, Iran and the US / Ali Parchami -- Terrorizing women : re-thinking the female jihad / Nadya Ali -- Afterword : knowing knowing al-Qaeda / Alan Cromartie.
ملخص:Despite a plethora of studies devoted to it, the current understanding of al-Qaeda and the threat it poses remains vague and ambiguous. Is al-Qaeda a rigidly organization, a global network of semi-independent cells, a franchise, or simply an ideology? What role did Osama bin Laden play within the group and its terrorist campaign? What does it mean to talk about the "global Salafi-jihad" threat allegedly confronting the West? In addressing such questions many writers have sought to offer definitive answers, yet overall the truth about al-Qaeda remains elusive. This book moves beyond this traditional approach in order to investigate and critically assess how such answers reflect the particular epistemological frameworks within which they are produced. Its chapters explore the varied contexts within which the obscure entity labeled al-Qaeda is constituted as a comprehensible object of political, strategic, cultural, and scientific knowledge, and within which 'terrorism' is rendered an experience of quotidian life. This volume offers a much-needed critical reflection on Western ways of talking and of thinking about the frightening experience of global terrorism. In trying to know how we know al-Qaeda, it offers us an opportunity to try to know ourselves and our often hidden assumptions about legitimacy, violence, and political purpose.
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كتاب كتاب UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة HV6432.5.Q2 K56 2012 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) C.1 Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط 30010011140258
كتاب كتاب UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة HV6432.5.Q2 K56 2012 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) C.2 المتاح 30010011140257

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : al-Qaeda and terrorism as a challenge to knowledge / Andreas Behnke and Christina Hellmich -- 'Here come the Salafis' : the framing of al-Qaeda's ideology within terrorism research / Christina Hellmich -- Anxieties of global empire : politics of visibility epistemologies and 'terror' / Anna M. Agathangelou -- Conceptualizing al-Qaeda and US grand strategy / Lars Berger -- Measuring al-Qaeda : the metrics of terror / Rashmi Singh -- Fear as sovereign strategy and the popular tactics of laughter / Andreas Behnke -- The friend of my enemy : al-Qaeda, Iran and the US / Ali Parchami -- Terrorizing women : re-thinking the female jihad / Nadya Ali -- Afterword : knowing knowing al-Qaeda / Alan Cromartie.

Despite a plethora of studies devoted to it, the current understanding of al-Qaeda and the threat it poses remains vague and ambiguous. Is al-Qaeda a rigidly organization, a global network of semi-independent cells, a franchise, or simply an ideology? What role did Osama bin Laden play within the group and its terrorist campaign? What does it mean to talk about the "global Salafi-jihad" threat allegedly confronting the West? In addressing such questions many writers have sought to offer definitive answers, yet overall the truth about al-Qaeda remains elusive. This book moves beyond this traditional approach in order to investigate and critically assess how such answers reflect the particular epistemological frameworks within which they are produced. Its chapters explore the varied contexts within which the obscure entity labeled al-Qaeda is constituted as a comprehensible object of political, strategic, cultural, and scientific knowledge, and within which 'terrorism' is rendered an experience of quotidian life. This volume offers a much-needed critical reflection on Western ways of talking and of thinking about the frightening experience of global terrorism. In trying to know how we know al-Qaeda, it offers us an opportunity to try to know ourselves and our often hidden assumptions about legitimacy, violence, and political purpose.

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