Maryam Khalid (Australia Macquarie University)

Gender, Orientalism, and the 'War on Terror'

Representation, Discourse, and Intervention in Global Politics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers an accessible, timely analysis of the â War on Terrorâ using a broad range of theoretical and empirical research. It uses â gendered orientalismâ as a lens through which to read the relationship between the Bush administration, gendered and racialized military intervention, and global politics. It draws upon poststructural an

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Produktdetails

• Postcolonial Politics
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 154mm x 236mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 286g
• ISBN-13: 9780367889692
• ISBN-10: 0367889692
• Artikelnr.: 58441296

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
Identities in the 'War on Terror'
Discourse: language, identity, power, and representation
Analytic strategy
Outline of the book
2. Gender, Orientalism, and Global Politics
Orientalism and gender as discourseRe-reading Said
'American orientalism'
Orientalism, race, and gender
Conclusion
3. Gender, Race, 'Self', and 'Other' in Histories of International
Intervention
Imperialism, liberalism and the US
Liberal internationalism and the pre-1945 international system
The 'underdeveloped' south in early liberal internationalism
Intervention, development, and the threat of the 'Other'
Democratisation, humanitarianism, and the responsibility to protect
4. Constructing the US 'Self' in 'War on Terror' Discourse
'Self', nation, race, and gender
Masculinity and the US 'Self'
Reading femininity(ies) in the US 'Self'
Conclusion
5. Gendered Orientalist Narratives: Afghanistan
'Saving' Afghanistan
Constructions of the 'Other'
Developing the narrative: Operation Enduring Freedom
Conclusion
6. Gendered Orientalist Narratives: Iraq
Consolidating gendered orientalist discourse
'Liberating' Iraq
The sexuality of the 'Other'
Conclusion
7. Conclusions