This barbaric terrorist organization”
Orientalism and Barack Obama’s language on Isis
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 12919342 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Ben Fermor (0000-0001-8406-5706, University of Leeds, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2021 |
| Volumen | 14 |
| Número | 3 |
| Páginas | 312-334 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2021-06-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | No |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Critical Studies on Terrorism (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 1753-9161 • E-ISSN: 1753-9153 |
| Editorial | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17539153.2021.1932750 |
| OpenAlex | W3175800267 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 1 |
| Referencias citadas | 41 |
This article explores US foreign policy discourse surrounding the rise of ISIS, from 2014 to 2016. Specifically, it asks how Obama constructed ISIS as a threatening Other at this time. This research responds to a gap in the literature concerning official Western discourses on ISIS violence, and partially fills this by tracing the formation of US foreign policy narratives and exploring how this drew from existing discourses and older Orientalist tropes. Conducting a discourse analysis of official statements, this paper shows how Obama modified his language to elevate the level of the threat in official discourse. It argues that he achieved this by drawing upon longstanding racialised and Orientalist archives of knowledge, effectively resituating the terrorist Other within a more markedly Orientalist discourse. Finally, the article concludes that by (re)producing the traditional Orientalist character of the barbarian as an existential threat to a Eurocentric idea of Western civilisation, Obama made possible an approach to intervention that prioritised air power, targeted assassinations and international cooperation to defend the “civilised” world. This had the effect of stigmatising Muslim communities who were left occupying a discursive space between the civilised West and the barbaric ISIS
Ancient history · Barbarian · Civilization · Existentialism · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Orientalism · Political science · Power (physics · Sociology · Terrorism · History · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
Us versus Them
Gender, Orientalism, and the ‘War on Terror’
Epic Encounters
Making women terrorists into “Jihadi brides”
State terrorism
A critique of western representations of Isis
American Orientalism and American Exceptionalism
(Muslim) Woman in Need of Empowerment
Veiled references
Security as Practice — Discourse Analysis and the Bosnian War
A Foundation-Hatched Black’
The Subjugation of Pacifism in UK Parliamentary Discourse
Creating the Ideology of Al Qaeda
Demonizing Isil and Defending Muslims
Neo-Orientalism and the new barbarism thesis
The Islamic State lexical battleground
Obama’s Aumf Legacy
Deconstitutive rhetoric
Breaker of Barriers? Notes on the Geopolitics of the Islamic State in Iraq and Sham
Foreign Policy as Social Construction
Spectacles of Sovereignty in Digital Time
The challenge of reset
Behead, burn, crucify, crush
Counter-Terrorism and the Counterfactual
What's so 'religious' about 'religious terrorism
The gendering of victimhood
Layers of religious and political iconoclasm under the Islamic State
Imag(in)ing the severed head
Beyond anything we have ever seen
Externalizing the burden of war
Isis, Heritage, and the Spectacles of Destruction in the Global Media
Leading from Behind - American Exceptionalism and President Obama's Post-American Vision of Hegemony
Denaturalisation and conceptions of citizenship in the 'war on terror
Ten years on
The Geopolitical Discourse of Barack Obama's State of the Union Addresses
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| Citas por año | 0,5 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Velocidad de citación | recent |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 1 |