Political Islam in Southeast Asia and North Africa: a postcolonial reading of human (in)security

Conference Theme: Global Governance: Political Authority in TransitionMy paper investigates how varied transnational forces such as colonialism, Christianity, capitalist expansion and nation-building processes, have shaped contemporary extremist manifestations of political Islam in Southeast Asia and North Africa. Additionally, this focus on transnational forces seeks to contribute to a different understanding of human (in)security, one that is attentive to trans-historical and trans-local links. A postcolonial reading of the phenomenon of political Islam attempts to grasp its complexity by paying attention to far-reaching historical links and to the consequences of European colonial projects in Muslim communities and societies. This longue durée dimension of Islamic terrorism has been underexamined in contemp…link_to_OA_fulltex