Mahmood Mamdani suggests that we turn the cultural theory of politics on its head. He places cultural debates in their historical and political contexts and in so doing claims that terrorism is not a cultural residue in modern politics but a modern construction. Development (2002) 45, 25–27....

Mahmood Mamdani suggests that we turn the cultural theory of politics on its head. He places cultural debates in their historical and political contexts and in so doing claims that terrorism is not a cultural residue in modern politics but a modern construction. Development (2007) 50, 117–119....