Occidentalism at War: Al-Qaida’s Resistance Rhetoric
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https://doi.org/10.13130/2035-7680/2562Palabras clave:
Occidentalism, Resistance, JihadResumen
Analysis of resistance groups active in the War on Terror provides case-studies for an examination of Occidentalism. Al-Qaida constructs a West both homogeneously and pejoratively in order to represent the self as a single Islamic nation under attack from a barbarian other. Concerned with propagating their narrative, al-Qaida considers the media battle to be at the forefront of their efforts. Yet global dissemination of their message is double-edged: positively, it can inspire disparate would-be jihadists; negatively, it opens up the discourse to examination in West. The discourse is studied, dissected and ultimately incorporated into the Western knowledge structure.Métricas
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2012-11-23
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Sims, Christopher. 2012. «Occidentalism at War: Al-Qaida’s Resistance Rhetoric». Altre Modernità, n.º 8 (noviembre):206-20. https://doi.org/10.13130/2035-7680/2562.
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