Knowing al-Qaeda

The Epistemology of Terrorism

Autor: Christina Hellmich, Andreas Behnke

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Wydawca: Taylor & Francis Ltd

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Despite a plethora of studies devoted to it, the current understanding of al-Qaeda and the threat it...

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Autor

Christina Hellmich, Andreas Behnke

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Twarda

Data wydania

2012

strony

192

EAN

9781409423669

ISBN

1409423662

Enbook ID

04782633

Wydawca

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Waga

494

Wymiary

163 x 234 x 17

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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 organisation, 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 labelled 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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