Disturbing Hegemony?

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“…More important, higher education is contested terrain characterized by social relations where groups in privileged positions on campus seek to retain their status, while groups in subordinate or marginal positions seek to create a more just distribution of opportunities and rewards (Agathangelou and Zalewski, 2005;Chang, Witt, Jones, and Hakuta, 2003;Hoover, 2002). The introduction of diversity initiatives in higher education intensifies the struggle between dominant and minority groups over access to a valued resource such as a college degree.…”

Critical terrorism studies (CTS): (State) (sponsored) terrorism identified in the (militarized) pedagogy of (U.S.) law enforcement agencies

“…Our appeal is that for terrorism studies to become more policy-relevant it requires developing new policies based on an OCP that valorizes demilitarization thus rejuvenating an entreaty to include marginalized research questions ignored by the industry of OTS which reifies a problemsolving approach. A number of issues that present themselves as opportunities for critical and orthodox terrorism scholars to collaborate include among others: analyzing the (neoliberal) political economy of terrorist groups in the Global South and their relation to Global North intelligence agencies 21 ; the unintended consequences of increased civilian casualties since state security agencies revert to Private Military Contractors (PMC)-who are not accountable to the justice system-to neutralize "internally presumed terrorists" (Al-Kassimi, 2017;Gilsinan, 2015;Isenberg, 2009;Scahill, 2009); the degree in which fighting terrorism by curtailing civil liberties runs the risk of constituting intentional state terrorism; the degree in which the privatization of law enforcement embodying hegemonic masculine traits (Agathangelou, 2007;Agathangelou & Zalewski, 2005;Blakeley, 2011) suggests that the state is engaging in gender terrorism; how is the democratic experience destabilized when considering that a recent report released in April 2017 by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GOA) labelled anti-governments groups and environmental organizations 22 advocating for federal ownership of public lands as "perpetrators of terrorism" even though they are expressing their democratic right? (Ford, Sims, Sterman, & Bergen, 2017;Valverde, 2017); and finally, how does adopting a critical decolonial (Al-Kassimi, 2018) or a postcolonial research program 23 give credence to state terrorism possessing an element of ethnocentricity by producing threatening terrorist profiles that are disproportionality identified in areas located in the Third World and/or almost always constituting minority groups as recently noticed in U.S. cities such as Baltimore, Michigan, Missouri, New Orleans, Ferguson, and North Dakota?.…”