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2020 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
5. Expertise, Epistemes and the Construction of a Suspect Community
verfasst von : Mohamed Natheem Hendricks
Erschienen in: Manufacturing Terrorism in Africa
Verlag: Springer Singapore
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Abstract
South African-based security think-tanks have been pivotal in the securitisation of Islam and Muslims in Africa. They have imported a Western security agenda into the local security discourse by associating Islam and Muslims with violence and terrorism.
Security think-tank experts have drawn their insights from epistemic networks that have their roots in Terrorism Studies and Counterinsurgency. These networks have been sponsored by the United States government from the 1970s.
This chapter argues that South African security experts have introduced and appropriated a particular Western narrative on the origins of contemporary terrorism into African security discourses. In order to increase their credibility, they created a local node within a global terrorism epistemic network.