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The U.S. War on Terror Discourse: Mapping De-politicization and the Politics of Confinement in Afghanistan

By Pamir H. Sahill

Book information

Publisher
SETA Foundation
Year
2018
DOI
10.25253/99.2018211.13
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5121814 bytes)
Series
1 (21)
Pages
189-208\22
Topic
Other Social Sciences\\Politics: International Relations
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2023-12-06 10:28:40
AfghanistanGWoTpolitics of confinementTerrorism

Description

This article argues that today, 17 years after the September 11, 2001 attacks, it is even more important to look at the beginnings of, and to reinterpret, the U.S. “War on Terror” discourse. To do so, this article employs a poststructuralist Critical Discourse Analysis and it advances the debate around the notion of “evilization.” Drawing upon Foucault’s work on the history of madness, it develops the notion of the politics of confinement and situates it in the context of Afghanistan. The article notes that the politics of confinement is illiberalizing and oppressive, contradicting the idea of emancipation functioning behind the U.S. intervention in Afghanistan. Thus, the contradictory discourse of the war in Afghanistan does not serve the purpose of victory as Trump envisages it.

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