Abstract
Decolonisation of knowledge over the past few years has gained much traction among scholars and students in many countries. This situation has led to calls for the decolonisation of knowledge, academia, the university, and university curricula. That said, the knowledge production side of the terrorism industry, which sits inside academia, so far has escaped calls to decolonise. This situation is somewhat surprising because the terrorism industry has had a tremendous impact on many countries, especially Muslim majority ones. The 9/11 terrorist attacks have resulted in a tremendous amount of knowledge being produced and published on terrorism and counterterrorism. However, little is known about “who is publishing on terrorism and where they are based”. To this end, this paper adopts a decolonial approach and addresses the questions of “who is publishing on terrorism and where they are based” by analysing seven terrorism journals. It argues that most of the publications and knowledge on terrorism in the seven terrorism journals are produced by scholars with Western heritage and are based at Western institutions, which is connected to the coloniality of knowledge.
Highlights
The emergence of the terrorism industry (Western countries and their agencies, non-Western countries allied to Western countries, think tanks, lobbying organisations, research centres, security firms, social science and humanities scholars, media firms, private military firms, tech companies and NGOs, all which are located in Western countries and their non-Western allies.) can be traced back to the 1970s to severalWestern countries, such as the US and the UK [1,2]
The investment has resulted in the rapid growth of the knowledge production side of the industry, which has led to an increase in the number of scholars specialising on terrorism, as well as terrorism journals, research centres and websites [3,4,5,6]
With this being the case, one would expect that the authorship of journal articles and by extension, knowledge production on terrorism would reflect the impact of terrorism
Summary
The emergence of the terrorism industry (Western countries and their agencies (intelligence agencies), non-Western countries allied to Western countries, think tanks, lobbying organisations, research centres, security firms, social science and humanities scholars, media firms, private military firms, tech companies and NGOs, all which are located in Western countries and their non-Western allies.) can be traced back to the 1970s to several. Western countries, such as the US and the UK [1,2]. The research on terrorism since 9/11, as well as journal publications, books, PhDs, MA courses on terrorism and counterterrorism training programs (Used at home use and exported to non-Western countries.) have rapidly increased [7,8,9,10,11]
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