Decolonising the Terrorism Industry: Indonesia

Mohammed Ilyas
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Mohammed Ilyas: Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3BX, UK

Social Sciences, 2021, vol. 10, issue 2, 1-16

Abstract: Over the last few decades, discussion of decolonisation and decolonial thinking has gained much traction in many countries. Scholars and students have called on their institutions to decolonise their curriculums and argued for why their respective disciplines need to be decolonised. They have recognised that the knowledge produced by the social sciences remains Western-centric. However, unlike the other social sciences, the terrorism industry, on the other hand, has not reflected on its Western centrism. This situation is especially the case with the security side of the terrorism industry, which is the most visible and arguably the most problematic side. By adopting a decolonial approach and Indonesia as a case study, this paper highlights some of the ways through which the terrorism industry reproduces Western centrism. The paper concludes by raising several issues regarding the role that the industry plays in Indonesia and urges scholars to research them.

Keywords: colonisation; decolonisation; terrorism; Western; non-Western; Muslim; securitisation; war on terror (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A B N P Y80 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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