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Conference Paper: Political Islam in Southeast Asia and North Africa: a postcolonial reading of human (in)security
| Title | Political Islam in Southeast Asia and North Africa: a postcolonial reading of human (in)security |
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| Authors | |
| Issue Date | 2011 |
| Publisher | All Academic, Inc.. |
| Citation | The 2011 Annual Convention of the International Studies Association (ISA), Montreal, QC., Canada, 16-19 March 2011. How to Cite? |
| Abstract | My paper investigates how varied transnational forces such as colonialism, Christianity, capitalist expansion and nation-building processes, have shaped contemporary extremist manifestations of political Islam in Southeast Asia and North Africa. Additionally, this focus on transnational forces seeks to contribute to a different understanding of human (in)security, one that is attentive to trans-historical and trans-local links. A postcolonial reading of the phenomenon of political Islam attempts to grasp its complexity by paying attention to far-reaching historical links and to the consequences of European colonial projects in Muslim communities and societies. This longue durée dimension of Islamic terrorism has been underexamined in contemp… |
| Description | Conference Theme: Global Governance: Political Authority in Transition |
| Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/136511 |
| DC Field | Value | Language |
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| dc.contributor.author | Sajed, A | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-07-27T02:17:23Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2011-07-27T02:17:23Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2011 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | The 2011 Annual Convention of the International Studies Association (ISA), Montreal, QC., Canada, 16-19 March 2011. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/136511 | - |
| dc.description | Conference Theme: Global Governance: Political Authority in Transition | - |
| dc.description.abstract | My paper investigates how varied transnational forces such as colonialism, Christianity, capitalist expansion and nation-building processes, have shaped contemporary extremist manifestations of political Islam in Southeast Asia and North Africa. Additionally, this focus on transnational forces seeks to contribute to a different understanding of human (in)security, one that is attentive to trans-historical and trans-local links. A postcolonial reading of the phenomenon of political Islam attempts to grasp its complexity by paying attention to far-reaching historical links and to the consequences of European colonial projects in Muslim communities and societies. This longue durée dimension of Islamic terrorism has been underexamined in contemp… | - |
| dc.language | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher | All Academic, Inc.. | - |
| dc.relation.ispartof | ISA Annual Convention 2011 | en_US |
| dc.title | Political Islam in Southeast Asia and North Africa: a postcolonial reading of human (in)security | en_US |
| dc.type | Conference_Paper | en_US |
| dc.identifier.email | Sajed, A: asajed@hku.hk | en_US |
| dc.identifier.authority | Sajed, A=rp01426 | en_US |
| dc.description.nature | link_to_OA_fulltext | - |
| dc.identifier.hkuros | 187872 | en_US |