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Review Article
We're All Terrorists Now: Critical—or Hypocritical—Studies “on” Terrorism?
- DOI:
- 10.1080/10576100902744128
pages 292-302
- Received: 2 Aug 2008
- Accepted: 13 Aug 2008
- Published online: 28 Mar 2009
Abstract
This article reviews the new journal Critical Studies on Terrorism. The fashionable approach that this journal adopts towards the contemporary phenomenon of terrorism maintains that a “critical” and “self-reflexive” approach to the study of terrorism reveals a variety of shortcomings in the discipline. These range from a distorting over-identification with the Western democratic state perspective on terrorism to a failure to empathize with the misunderstood, non-Western, “other.” This review examines whether the claims of the critical approach adds anything, other than pedantry and obscurity, to our understanding of the phenomenon. It concludes that it does not.
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- Citation information:
- Received: 2 Aug 2008
- Accepted: 13 Aug 2008
- Published online: 28 Mar 2009
Author affiliations
- a University of Queensland , Queensland, Australia
- b King's College , University of London , London, UK
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