BISA 2025 Conference

Colonialism, counterterrorism and the emergency

FR 20

20 Jun 2025, 15:00

1h 30m

Panel Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group

Description

This panel bring together papers that interrogate the connections between counterterrorism and colonial and racialised forms of violence.

Subcontributions

• Far Right Terror as White Settler Violence: Reading Christchurch through Settler Colonial Studies
• Dark Diplomacy and State Terrorism: Portugal, Rhodesia and Apartheid 1960-1994
• Terrorism, Violence and the Political: Red and White Terrors in French Indochina
• Grand Narrative and Orientalism: A Postmodern Study of Muslim Representation in John Updike's Terrorist (2006) and Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007)