Islamophobia and Surveillance: Genealogies of a Global Order
James Renton, "Islamophobia and Surveillance: Genealogies of a Global Order "
English | ISBN: 0367190303 | 2019 | 152 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 0367190303 | 2019 | 152 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The War on Terror has established a new global order of political structures, legislation, and technologies designed to spy on the world’s Muslims. This book explains the origins and trajectories of this political system.
The contributors argue that a constellation of Western ideas about Muslims have evolved over time to produce an insatiable desire for all-pervasive, ever-expanding surveillance in our contemporary moment. The book posits that the surveillance order is not, however, only the result of conceptions of Muslims. It is, rather, the outcome of centuries of European thought regarding religion, governance, and revolution. Islamophobia and Surveillance traverses the existential desire for wakeful vigilance, the religious wars of early modern Europe, colonial India, the Balkan frontier of the EU, and the walls of the United States-Mexico border.
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