Power, Discourse and Victimage Ritual in the War on Terror

Blain, Michael

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“…Since the global war on terror not just rely on the war on the battleground through military and intelligence forces but also the 'battle of ideas' through social and political agencies (Blain, 2012;Jarvis, 2009), the Indonesia's war on BNPT has focused its activity on de-radicalization and counter-radicalisation through alignment with the moderate Islam groups in Indonesia (Fealy, 2017: 24 (Borgu, 2005: 75;Rabasa, Sickle, Benard, & Schwartz, 2007: 105).…”

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The Making of Islamist-inspired Terrorism and It’s Counter-terrorism in Indonesia

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2018

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The study attempts to uncover the making of Islamist-inspired terrorism and its state-led counter-terrorism responses in the modern history of Indonesia. It argues that Islamist-inspired terrorism and its counter-terrorism have been inextricably linked in complex ways within political and historical contexts. Instead of regarding Islamist-inspired terrorism and counter-terrorism as separated and unrelated entities, or perceiving the latter as just response to the former, it suggests that they have been intertwined and shaped each other throughout Indonesia’s modern history. By discussing Islamist-inspired terrorism in the three Indonesian historical periods, namely the resurgence of Darul Islam during 1940-60s, the re-emergence of Darul Islam networks and its series of terrorist attacks in 1980s, and the Jemaah Islamiyah-related terrorist activities in the 2000s as illustrative cases, the study has delineated the ways in which Islamist-inspired terrorism and its state-led counter-terrorism have been bound up within particular political, historical, and sociological context. In addition to that, the study also reveals that both Islamist-inspired terrorism and its state-led counter-terrorism have been shaped by the dynamic interplay of local, national, and global contexts.

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“…The Nazi use of propaganda and its campaign against the Jews constitute a cultural paradigm of this political practice (Blain , , 1995; Burke 1941, 191–220; Duncan , 238–52; Edelman , 155–171; Ivie , ; Ivie and Giner ; Wagner‐Pacifici ). Blain () concluded that these struggles against terrorists (i.e., Indian Wars, WW II/Nazis, Cold War/Communists) have played a constitutive role in American nationalism and US lead Empire (also Rogin ; Slotkin , ).…”

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“…Political victimage rituals generate new categories of villainous scapegoats to destroy and objects of knowledge to research (see Figure ). This cycle can be modeled as a ritual sequence: power/political victimage ritual/knowledge (Blain ). As Foucault () hypothesized, power relations are “productive” as well as “repressive.” Once constituted knowledge exerts power effects.…”

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“…They were publicized in mass media spectacles (increasingly in real time), memorialized in periodic rituals, and documented in histories, literature, and film. The United States has engaged in 18 armed conflicts (1950–2010); some of them have been protracted, intense, and highly contentious (Blain , 74). Foucault did not think that spectacular violence disappeared from social life (, 136).…”

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Social Science Discourse and the Biopolitics of Terrorism

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2015

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This article weaves social science discourse into the fabric of a genealogy of terrorism. The power struggles associated with the US lead global war on terrorism are producing many new objects of knowledge and possible lines of research (e.g., Islamic terrorists, jihadists, suicide bombers, experts on counterterrorism, and ISIS). This process is modeled as a cycle involving power struggles and power elite orchestrated political victimage rituals and a biopolitics of knowledge. This dynamic is explored in terms of social science discourse and the biopolitics of terrorism. The limits of current thinking in “counterterrorism” and the possibilities of future research are highlighted

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“…We should once again recall that the development of the social sciences in the 19th century was energized and legitimated as a rational response to the dangers posed by revolutionary liberalism and the right to fight tyrannical terror with democratic terror (Blain, 2012). Power is immanent in the production of knowledge.…”

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Power, Discourse and Victimage Ritual in the War on Terror

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The Making of Islamist-inspired Terrorism and It’s Counter-terrorism in Indonesia

The Making of Islamist-inspired Terrorism and It’s Counter-terrorism in Indonesia

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