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Theorising the Islamic State: A Critical Global South Decolonial Perspective
Mini Dissertation (MSS)--University of Pretoria, 2017.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/63618 Theorising the Islamic State: A Critical Global South Decolonial Perspective Bizos, Anthony nmajozi.yli@gmail.com Majozi, Nkululeko Islamic State (IS) Terrorism Islam Modernity Coloniality Epistemology Discourse UCTD Mini Dissertation (MSS)--University of Pretoria, 2017. This study critically engages with the current security debate on the conceptual understanding of the Islamic State (IS). The study critically evaluates the dominant Western view within the debate that conceptualises IS as an ‘Islamic’ terrorist organisation and a product of the ‘backwardness’ of Islam. By conducting a critical review of the literature on IS, the author argues that such a conceptualisation of IS is rooted in a racist, orientalist and Islamophobic Western epistemological narrative which seeks to create a ‘natural’ link between terrorism and Islam. Through a conceptual discussion on terrorism and a critical assessment of the Eurocentric nature of security studies theories, both traditional and critical, the study shows how hegemonic Western epistemologies are able to conveniently ignore the European roots of terrorism in the foundation of Western modernity. The result of this is that hegemonic Western epistemologies are able to appropriate the concept of security as an exclusive domain of Western states and their societies. This whilst carving out the non-European world, particularly Islamic societies, as the exclusive sources of potential terrorist threats. The study therefore advances the decolonial theoretical concept of global coloniality as a means of reframing the debate and shifting the point of enunciation from dominant Western views of IS to a more critical Global South decolonial perspective. As such, the study places emphasis on the European origins of terrorism as a constitutive element of the foundation of Western modernity, whilst addressing the cognitive confinement of security studies theories. In this light the study concludes by asserting that the Islamic State is a creation of the constitutive violent logic of Western modernity/coloniality, which has terrorism as its foundational core. National Research Foundation (NRF) Political Sciences MSS Unrestricted 2018-01-18T12:08:29Z 2018-01-18T12:08:29Z 2018-04 2017 Mini Dissertation Majozi, N 2017, Theorising the Islamic State: A Critical Global South Decolonial Perspective, MSS Mini Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/63618> http://hdl.handle.net/2263/63618 en © 2018 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Islamic State (IS) Terrorism Islam Modernity Coloniality Epistemology Discourse UCTD Theorising the Islamic State: A Critical Global South Decolonial Perspective |
| title | Theorising the Islamic State: A Critical Global South Decolonial Perspective |
| title_full | Theorising the Islamic State: A Critical Global South Decolonial Perspective |
| title_fullStr | Theorising the Islamic State: A Critical Global South Decolonial Perspective |
| title_full_unstemmed | Theorising the Islamic State: A Critical Global South Decolonial Perspective |
| title_short | Theorising the Islamic State: A Critical Global South Decolonial Perspective |
| title_sort | theorising the islamic state a critical global south decolonial perspective |
| topic | Islamic State (IS) Terrorism Islam Modernity Coloniality Epistemology Discourse UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/63618 |