Decolonising the Terrorism Industry: Indonesia

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 recogn...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Social sciences (Basel) 2021-02, Vol.10 (2), p.53
Main Author: Ilyas, Mohammed
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Colonialism
colonisation
decolonisation
Imperialism
Intelligence gathering
Islam
Islamism
Knowledge
Minority & ethnic violence
Muslim
non-Western
Politics
terrorism
Western
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary: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.
ISSN:2076-0760
2076-0760
DOI:10.3390/socsci10020053