Ahmad, Irfan. 2023. “Securatisation of Muslims in India is as Old as Modernisation and Nation-statisation.” Melbourne Asia Review 15. https://doi.org/10.37839/MAR2652-550X15.18
Abstract: My key argument is that to see securitisation as an outcome of 9/11 and the so-called war on terror is simplistic and seductively presentist. As a process, securitisation instead is much older; it is indeed bound up with modernisation and nation-statisation, the political wing of modernity. Further, my contention here resonates with political scientist Michael Dillon’s formulation that Western thought has been ‘a security project in the fullest sense of the term.’
