“Let us create space”: Reclaiming peace and security in a Kenyan Somali community
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چکیده
This article pushes for a postcolonial, feminist critique of “anti-terrorist” securitization, that makes space transformative peace-building. The post-9/11 securitization the African continent builds on long legacy colonial conquest and racist Othering. Somalia is regularly centered here, portrayed in media state narratives as volatile failed state, one produces terrorist bodies acts. But rather than building peace, we follow others arguing projects have stoked violence, intensifying discrimination against Somali diasporic community (Mohamed, 2017; Wairuri, 2020). To counter this dominant narrative, centre Somali-Kenyan Awjama Cultural Centre, Eastleigh neighborhood Nairobi, Kenya. A particularly rich instructive case study peace-making through activism, ask: How do Somalis who use Centre subvert racist, Islamophobic reclaim their own modes representation? And how these new disrupt systemic violence build peace? Demonstrating insights feminist, postcolonial geographic approach, argue spaces like provide interpersonal support kinds (self-) representation. These fundamentally single stories Africa terrorism, with greater possibilities establishing long-term embodied peace geopolitical securitization.
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عنوان ژورنال: Political Geography
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['0962-6298', '1873-5096']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2021.102453