Mohamed Natheem Hendricks

• University of the Western Cape

Curriculum reform and development is, first and foremost, a political project. It involves the selection, organisation and distribution of particular knowledge structures. But factors such as student and teacher demographics deeply influence the ways in which curricula can be implemented, enacted and used as a catalyst for change. In South Africa,...

The Author and Series Editors have agreed to exclude a part of this chapter in response to a complaint by an academic who disputed the representation of their views here. The chapter has been now corrected.

National newspapers have been pivotal in the securitisation of Muslims as they have transferred the security priorities and policy agendas of the West into South Africa. Consequently, they have endorsed the discourse that construct Islam as an existential threat to Western civilisation and African society. In support of the ‘Global War on Terror’,...

The chapter concludes this book which unveiled the continuous practices and complicated processes involved in the securitisation of Islam in Africa. The unique contribution this publication makes to the scholarly literature is its use of securitisation theory to analyse the construction of Islam as a threat in Africa by security think-tanks and nat...

South African-based security think-tanks have been pivotal in the securitisation of Islam and Muslims in Africa. They have imported a Western security agenda into the local security discourse by associating Islam and Muslims with violence and terrorism. Security think-tank experts have drawn their insights from epistemic networks that have their ro...

This chapter analyses the DStv Carte Blanche documentary, The Kenyan Attack, which was aired on 29 September 2013. A theme in this documentary is that the South African Muslim community poses a security threat because they are associated with terrorism and provides sanctuary to Islamic terrorists. In the documentary, a former US Secretary of State...

The scholarly literature suggests that think-tanks are research institutions with material interests aiming to influence public policy processes and research. Despite such ideological partiality, their works are regarded as legitimate forms of knowledge because they are associated with the rituals of research. This chapter examines the roles and fu...

This chapter conceptualised and problematised securitisation theory through a review of the relevant literature. Securitisation theory conceives of security as an intersubjective rhetorical practice which, through the act of uttering security, brings a new social order into existence that provides justification for extraordinary measures to urgentl...

This chapter seeks to position the United States of America (US) at the centre of security and terrorism debates in Africa. This is because the former US President George W. Bush initiated the internationalisation of the ‘Global War on Terror’. His utterance—after ‘9/11’—reinforced the equation of Islam with the idea of terror and successfully secu...

This article makes a contribution to understanding human rights peer education in the South African context and the extent to which such provision could enable participants to develop a critical understanding of human rights and xenophobia.

Newspapers as an infrastructural form both circulate and construct security knowledge. In analysing South African national newspapers’ pivotal role in the securitisation of Muslims, this paper displays the political rationality behind such securitisation. It identifies and examines instances of securitisation within the South African press. Specifi...

“Theoretically sophisticated, empirically rich and always interesting, Manufacturing Terrorism in Africa adds greatly to our knowledge of the globally dominant terrorism discourse and its damaging effects on community relations and counterterrorism policy-making. Highly recommended.” — Professor Richard Jackson, University of Otago, New Zealand “Na...

This article contributes to the debate about e-learning as a form of adult education. It is based on the experiences of South African students, describes and analyses group interaction in an intercontinental Masters in Adult Education Programme which uses a computer electronic platform as the primary medium for learning and teaching. The article fo...

This research is an attempt to determine the extent to which the Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) in higher education promotes social transformation. Through analysing the case study of the University of the Western Cape (UWC) RPL programme, some conclusions on this matter were drawn. This research, a qualitative study, analyses key official doc...