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                            CALL FOR PAPERS

        Humanities and Social Sciences Congress, May 26 - June 2,
        2007, Saskatoon, Canada.

        Session title: Orientalism and Terrorism

        Organizer: Pavan Kumar Malreddy, Department of Sociology,
University of Saskatchewan

        Discussant: Dr. Ron Wheeler, Department of Political Studies,
University of Saskatchewan (for Canadian Association of Geographers)


Session Description:

Following the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 (9/11), the US
government compiled a long list of suspect terrorist countries. Although
this list was initially restricted to the counties in the Middle East,
it has been gradually expanded to other regions in South and Southeast
Asia. Subsequently, anyone bearing the features of Asian or Muslim
identity ("brown-colour") became prime suspects of terrorism in the
Western world. While these developments entail a process of reducing
diverse cultural identities into singularity; the notion of the Orient
as a collective geo-cultural entity and a cultivating ground of
terrorists has become a latent discursive theme in the contemporary
academic writing. Correspondingly, a complex interaction of state
sponsored research programs, think tanks, academics, and "area studies"
specialists have unpacked a "new terrorism" discourse that informs much
of the post-9/11 geopolitics. To this end, a wide variety of local and
ethnic struggles, and other political unrest throughout Asia have been
drawn into the "new terrorism" discourse as well as the global "war on
terror."

Recent trends in the discourse on new terrorism purport that the
Islamist political struggles in Asia are part and parcel of the Al Qaeda
terrorist network. These include organizations such as Pattani el-
Jihadi in Thailand, Abu Sayyaf Group in Philippines, Jamaat ul-Fuqra in
Pakistan, Jaish-e-Mohammad in India, Kumpulan Mujahidin Malaysia and
Jemaah Islamiyah in Indonesia.

In light of such complex developments conflating "terrorism" with a host
of Asian identities, this panel invites papers that reflect upon, but
not restricted to: a) essentialization of Asian identities since 9/11;
b)"ethno-terrorism" and international terrorism; c) Area studies and
terrorism; d) security studies and terrorism; e) discourses of
terrorism; f) terrorism and ethnic violence; g) eco-racism and
eco-terrorism; h) anthropometric geography; i) resurgence of Orientalist
discourse.

Keywords: Orientalism; ethno-terrorism; geography; space; territorial
mapping; Asia; area studies.

Send your proposals (200-300 words) directly to Pavan Kumar Malreddy
before March 10, 2007: <pavan.kumar at usask.ca>

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