The Ideology of (Counter)Terrorism-Islamophobia/Islamophilia and the Ethico-political Subjectivity of US Muslims: From Decolonial Psychoanalysis to Liberation Praxis
[Thesis]
Robert K. Beshara
Korobov, Neill
University of West Georgia
2018
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Committee members: Bazian, Hatem; Roberts, John L.
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-438-00706-2
Ph.D.
Psychology
University of West Georgia
2018
In chapter I, I develop what I call Decolonial Psychoanalysis as one approach to Critical Islamophobia Studies in an effort to conceptualize everyday Islamophobia as internalized Islamophobia. To do this, I draw on a number of theoretical resources situated within the discursive turn, such as decoloniality/transmodernity and Lacanian psychoanalysis. In chapter II, I carry out an archeology of (counter)terrorism, a genealogy of the conceptual Muslim, and a Žižekian ideology critique. In chapter III, I turn to the psychologization of Islamophobia. In chapters IV and V, I apply Lacanian Discourse Analysis to 11 extracts from interviews I conducted with 5 US Muslims to theorize their ethico-political subjectivity. In the concluding chapter, I consider three practices of hope: politics of resistance, adversarial aesthetics, and ethics of liberation.
Social psychology; Psychology; Ethnic studies
Social sciences;Psychology;Decoloniality;Islamophobia;Liberation;Psychoanalysis;Resistance;War on Terror