Experiencing the war “of” terror: a call to the critical terrorism studies community

@article{Qureshi2020ExperiencingTW,
  title={Experiencing the war “of” terror: a call to the critical terrorism studies community},
  author={Asim Iqbal Qureshi},
  journal={Critical Studies on Terrorism},
  year={2020},
  volume={13},
  pages={485 - 499}
}
  • A. Qureshi
  • Published 26 March 2020
  • Sociology, Political Science
  • Critical Studies on Terrorism
ABSTRACT The Critical Terrorism Studies (CTS) community has produced an important volume of work assessing and critiquing epistemological understandings of the War on (of) Terror. Largely missing from this body of work, however, is the experience of those who are directly impacted by the policies of this global phenomenon. By rethinking the War on Terror as an experience of war, I posit a wider understanding, by reassessing its temporal and spatial boundaries, but more significantly, the ways… 
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