The Maintenance of Innocence
The Maintenance of Innocence
This chapter examines an episode from the popular British television show Spooks/MI-5 entitled “Who Guards the Guards?” (2004) and the films Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty. It reveals the importance of the history of racial slavery and incarceration to current imaginings of Islamists in cultural production in the UK and the US. The imagined power of Islamists functions to disappear the historical violence of Empire, as the continuity of practices that date to racial slavery and to the eradication of the Native Americans is erased. Practices fundamental to the making of colonial modernity are redeemed, their history effaced, by making them seem only products of the War on Terror.
Keywords: Islam, British television show, Spooks/MI-5, Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty, cultural production, violence, racial slavery
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