Monthly Review
06-24-2011, 08:50 PM
Policy attempts to "fix" the division between entities -- which have been a feature of British government reactions to the attacks of July 2005 in London and of subsequent anti-extremist initiatives such as the "Prevent" strategy -- are misconceived and anachronistic, for they assume the existence of a "west" that is ideologically unified, provincial, and devoid of cosmopolitan spirit and intercultural heritage. In today's globalised world order this assumption no longer has purchase, for the "west" and its correlates (east, south, north) are inside each other, part of an emerging postmodern constellation.
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