Warmaking As Worldmaking Kenya The United States And The War On Terror 1st Samar Albulushi by Samar Al-bulushi 9781503639744, 9781503640917, 9781503640924, 1503639746, 1503640914, 1503640922, B0DHD6SCTP instant download after payment.

War-Making as Worldmaking explores the entanglement of militarism, imperialism, and liberal-democratic governance in East Africa today. Samar Al-Bulushi argues that Kenya's emergence as a key player in the "War on Terror" is closely linked—but not reducible to—the U.S. military's growing proclivity to outsource the labor of war. Attending to the cultural politics of security, Al-Bulushi illustrates that the war against Al-Shabaab has become a means to produce new fantasies, emotions, and subjectivities about Kenya's place in the world. Meanwhile, Kenya's alignment with the U.S. provides cover for the criminalization and policing of the country's Muslim minority population.

How is life lived in a place that is not understood to be a site of war, yet is often experienced as such by its targets? This book weaves together multiple scales of analysis, asking what a view from East Africa can tell us about the shifting configurations and expansive geographies of post-9/11 imperial warfare.

Introduction

1.Kenya to the Rescue? Race, Gender, and the Cultural Politics of Security

2.Securing Paradise: Race, Capital, and Suspect Citizenship on the Coast

3.Phantom Epistemologies: Navigating the Urban Gray Zone

4.Home as Thoroughfare

5.On Friendship and Freedom Dreams

Conclusion

Samar Al-Bulushi is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine.