A subaltern critical geopolitics of the war on terror: Postcolonial security in Tanzania
A subaltern critical geopolitics of the war on terror: Postcolonial security in Tanzania
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DOI：
10.1016/j.geoforum.2011.04.005
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2011-06
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3.5
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J. Sharp
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作者：
J. Sharp
目前，霸权的地理想象被反恐战争的情绪化地缘政治所主导，相关的安全实践被普遍化为所谓的“全球化恐惧”(Pain，2009)。地缘政治的批判性方法已经注意到这种想象的西方中心性质，然而，研究非西方对当前地缘政治的看法和恐惧的性质将有助于进一步取代占主导地位的地缘政治想象。例如，非洲是一个经常被西方地缘政治占领的大陆--作为失败国家、即将到来的无政府状态、被动接受援助的地方等等--但起源于非洲的地缘政治陈述很少对政治理论产生太大影响。本文旨在从一个从主导地缘政治想象的边缘出现的视角，为所谓的反恐战争的批评工作增添内容。它考虑了非西方来源--坦桑尼亚的报纸--对反恐战争的地缘政治想象。
Currently, hegemonic geographical imaginations are dominated by the affective geopolitics of the War on Terror, and related security practice is universalised into what has been called “globalized fear” (Pain, 2009). Critical approaches to geopolitics have been attentive to the Westerncentric nature of this imaginary, however, studies of non-Western perceptions of current geopolitics and the nature of fear will help to further displace dominant geopolitical imaginations. Africa, for example, is a continent that is often captured in Western geopolitics – as a site of failed states, the coming anarchy, passive recipient of aid, and so on – but geopolitical representations originating in Africa rarely make much of an impact on political theory.This paper aims to add to critical work on the so-called War on Terror from a perspective emerging from the margins of the dominant geopolitical imagination. It considers the geopolitical imagination of the War on Terror from a non-Western source, newspapers in Tanzania.