Gender, Orientalism, and the ‘War on Terror'

Representation, Discourse, and Intervention in Global Politics

AvMaryam Khalid

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

Del i serien Postcolonial Politics

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This book offers an accessible and timely analysis of the ‘War on Terror’, based on an innovative approach to a broad range of theoretical and empirical research. It uses ‘gendered orientalism’ as a lens through which to read the relationship between the George W. Bush administration, gendered and racialized military intervention, and global politics.Khalid argues that legitimacy, power, and authority in global politics, and the ‘War on Terror’ specifically, are discursively constructed through representations that are gendered and racialized, and often orientalist. Looking at the ways in which ‘official’ US ‘War on Terror’ discourse enabled military intervention into Afghanistan and Iraq, the book takes a postcolonial feminist approach to broaden the scope of critical analyses of the ‘War on Terror’ and reflect on the gendered and racial underpinnings of key relations of power within contemporary global politics.This book is a unique, innovative and significant analysis of the operation of race, orientalism, and gender in global politics, and the ‘War on Terror’ specifically. It will be of great interest to scholars and graduates interested in gender politics, development, humanitarian intervention, international (global) relations, Middle East politics, security, and US foreign policy.

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Utgivningsdatum:2017-06-02
Mått:156 x 234 x 14 mm
Vikt:490 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Postcolonial Politics
Antal sidor:176
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781138200692

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Maryam Khalid is a Lecturer and the Director of the Bachelor of International Studies program at Macquarie University, Australia. Her research is focused on global politics, security, and popular culture, exploring gender, sexuality, and race as processes, practices, and analytical lenses in and across international relations and global governance discourses.

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1. IntroductionIdentities in the ‘War on Terror’Discourse: language, identity, power, and representationAnalytic strategyOutline of the book2. Gender, Orientalism, and Global PoliticsOrientalism and gender as discourseRe-reading Said‘American orientalism’Orientalism, race, and genderConclusion3. Gender, Race, ‘Self’, and ‘Other’ in Histories of International InterventionImperialism, liberalism and the USLiberal internationalism and the pre-1945 international systemThe ‘underdeveloped’ south in early liberal internationalismIntervention, development, and the threat of the ‘Other’Democratisation, humanitarianism, and the responsibility to protect4. Constructing the US ‘Self’ in ‘War on Terror’ Discourse‘Self’, nation, race, and genderMasculinity and the US ‘Self’Reading femininity(ies) in the US ‘Self’Conclusion5. Gendered Orientalist Narratives: Afghanistan‘Saving’ AfghanistanConstructions of the ‘Other’Developing the narrative: Operation Enduring FreedomConclusion6. Gendered Orientalist Narratives: IraqConsolidating gendered orientalist discourse‘Liberating’ IraqThe sexuality of the ‘Other’Conclusion7. Conclusions