Thematic Section
Development (2007) 50, 117–119. doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100353
An African Perspective on Contemporary Terrorism
Reprinted from Development 45 no 2: 25–27
Mahmood Mamdani
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Abstract
Mahmood Mamdani suggests that we turn the cultural theory of politics on its head. He places cultural debates in their historical and political contexts and in so doing claims that terrorism is not a cultural residue in modern politics but a modern construction.
Keywords:
cold war, cultural history, Islam, modernity, official America, Reagan
