Gender, Orientalism, and the 'War on Terror': Representation, Discourse, and Intervention in Global Politics (Postcolonial Politics / Writing Past Colonialism)

Maryam Khalid

ISBN 10: 1138200697 / ISBN 13: 9781138200692

Edité par Routledge, 2017

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Hardcover, xi + 164 pages, NOT ex-library. Book is clean and bright with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Minor handling wear. Issued without a dust jacket. N° de réf. du vendeur 009459

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Titre : Gender, Orientalism, and the 'War on Terror'...

Éditeur : Routledge

Date d'édition : 2017

Reliure : Hardcover

Etat : Near Fine

Edition : 1st Edition

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Synopsis :

This book offers an accessible and timely analysis of the ‘War on Terror’, based on an innovative approach to a broad range of theoretical and empirical research. It uses ‘gendered orientalism’ as a lens through which to read the relationship between the George W. Bush administration, gendered and racialized military intervention, and global politics.

Khalid argues that legitimacy, power, and authority in global politics, and the ‘War on Terror’ specifically, are discursively constructed through representations that are gendered and racialized, and often orientalist. Looking at the ways in which ‘official’ US ‘War on Terror’ discourse enabled military intervention into Afghanistan and Iraq, the book takes a postcolonial feminist approach to broaden the scope of critical analyses of the ‘War on Terror’ and reflect on the gendered and racial underpinnings of key relations of power within contemporary global politics.

This book is a unique, innovative and significant analysis of the operation of race, orientalism, and gender in global politics, and the ‘War on Terror’ specifically. It will be of great interest to scholars and graduates interested in gender politics, development, humanitarian intervention, international (global) relations, Middle East politics, security, and US foreign policy.

À propos de l?auteur:

Maryam Khalid is a Lecturer and the Director of the Bachelor of International Studies program at Macquarie University, Australia. Her research is focused on global politics, security, and popular culture, exploring gender, sexuality, and race as processes, practices, and analytical lenses in and across international relations and global governance discourses.