Frontiers of Blame: India's 'War on Terror'
(2009) In Critical Studies on Terrorism 2(1). p.27-44- Abstract
- The article interrogates the meaning of terror in India, enacted through the recurring articulation of a particular logic of blame, via a specific focus on the train blasts in Mumbai in July 2006. The conceptual extent of 'violence as terror' is examined broadly: as boundaries erected to equal 'war on terror' with 'war on Muslim terror', as a purifying of the Indian 'Self', and as shifting thresholds in state rationalities pertaining to terrorist activities. The Indian state is torn between blaming domestic organisations and 'cross-border terrorism' for involvement in acts of terror. The vagueness and ephemeral character of where to lay down the frontiers of blame is placing Muslim citizens in a precarious situation.
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- author
- Svensson, Ted LU
- publishing date
- 2009
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- India, terrorism, Muslims, Hindu Right, blame
- in
- Critical Studies on Terrorism
- volume
- 2
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 27 - 44
- publisher
- Routledge
- external identifiers
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- scopus:84859344415
- DOI
- 10.1080/17539150902752606
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- id
- dabc8544-e70e-4834-879f-1c555db1c3d4 (old id 1659307)
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- 2016-04-04 10:09:53
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