The triviality of terrorism

Michaelsen, Christopher

doi:10.1080/10357718.2012.692531

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“…Islam presents a threat that liberal policymakers in democratic nationstates believe they have to cope with (Klausen 2005;Poynting & Mason 2008;Michaelsen 2012). Arguably, Islam is the only or most important issue not only in the smaller EU states but in the EU as a whole.…”

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Migration and Integration in Europe, Southeast Asia, and Australia

2014

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PublicationsThe International Institute for Asian Studies is a research and exchange platform based in Leiden, the Netherlands. Its objective is to encourage the interdisciplinary and comparative study of Asia and to promote (inter)national cooperation. IIAS focuses on the humanities and social sciences and on their interaction with other sciences. It stimulates scholarship on Asia and is instrumental in forging research networks among Asia Scholars. Its main research interest are reflected in the three book series published with Amsterdam University Press: Global Asia, Asian Heritages and Asian Cities.IIAS acts as an international mediator, bringing together various parties in Asia and other parts of the world. The Institute works as a clearinghouse of knowledge and information. This entails activities such as providing information services, the construction and support of international networks and cooperative projects, and the organisation of seminars and conferences. In this way, IIAS functions as a window on Europe for non-European scholars and contributes to the cultural rapprochement between Europe and Asia. IIAS Publications Officer: Paul van der Velde IIAS Assistant Publications Officer: Mary Lynn van Dijk Global AsiaAsia has a long history of transnational linkage with other parts of the world. Yet the contribution of Asian knowledge, values, and practices in the making of the modern world has largely been overlooked until recent years. The rise of Asia is often viewed as a challenge to the existing world order. Such a bifurcated view overlooks the fact that the global order has been shaped by Asian experiences as much as the global formation has shaped Asia. The Global Asia Series takes this understanding as the point of departure. It addresses contemporary issues related to transnational interactions within the Asian region, as well as Asia's projection into the world through the movement of goods, people, ideas, knowledge, ideologies, and so forth. The series aims to publish timely and well-researched books that will have the cumulative effect of developing new perspectives and theories about global Asia. PublicationsGlobal Asia 6 Cover illustration: © Nanang Indra Kurniawan Cover design: Coördesign, Leiden Typesetting: Crius Group, Hulshout Amsterdam University Press English-language titles are distributed in the US and Canada by the University of Chicago Press. isbn 978 90 8964 538 8 e-isbn 978 90 4852 817 2 (pdf) nur 741 | 763

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“…Some might argue that, even if the drone war constitutes terrorism, the war may still be justified because of the continuing threat posed by Islamic terrorism. While I do not have space here to address the long-standing debate about whether terrorism can be justified (see[35] for an overview of the debate), this argument fails to justify the drone war because Islamic terrorism does not now (and arguably never did-see[20,32,59] pose the kind of existential threat that would be necessary to justify a resort to terrorism, (see, for example,[34]). Indeed, white supremacist terrorism arguably poses a greater threat to the lives of US citizens than Islamic terrorism.…”

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Technology as Terrorism: Police Control Technologies and Drone Warfare

Wolfendale

2021

Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications

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Debates about terrorism and technology often focus on the potential uses of technology by non-state terrorist actors and by states as forms of counterterrorism. Yet, little has been written about how technology shapes how we think about terrorism. In this Chapter I argue that technology, and the language we use to talk about technology, constrains and shapes our moral understanding of the nature, scope, and impact of terrorism, particularly in relation to state terrorism. After exploring the ways in which technology shapes moral thinking, I use two case studies to demonstrate how technology simultaneously hides and enables terrorist forms of state violence: police control technologies and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), or drones. In both these cases, I argue that features of these technologies, combined with a narrative of precision and efficiency, masks the terrorist nature of the violence that these practices inflict and reinforces the moral exclusion of those against whom these technologies are deployed. In conclusion, I propose that identifying acts of terrorism requires a focus on the impact of technologies of violence (whether they are “high tech” or not) on those most affected, regardless of whether users of these technologies conceive of their actions as terrorist.

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The securitisation of terrorism in Ethiopia: An old practice in a New discourse

Ayalew

2023

Cogent Social Sciences

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The triviality of terrorism

Cited by 5 publications

References 25 publications

Migration and Integration in Europe, Southeast Asia, and Australia

Migration and Integration in Europe, Southeast Asia, and Australia

Technology as Terrorism: Police Control Technologies and Drone Warfare

The securitisation of terrorism in Ethiopia: An old practice in a New discourse

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