Terroristas são os outros: uma análise em dois tempos entre a Global War on Terrorism e o colonialismo europeu no século XVI

Abstract

With the boom in the production of papers about terrorism after the September 11th attack to the World Trade Center and to the Pentagon in the USA, it’s observed some approaches that highlight new techniques used by terrorists and new actions to combat them, launched by the title of GWoT. The present analysis intends, however, to point out through the discourse the similar aspects between/among the elements that compose this American initiative and those used by the great European powers during the overseas’ formal colonization. It’s therefore emphasized that anti-terrorism discourse is not an exclusively contemporary phenomenon that emerged in the face of the latest attacks in what the West considers as “terrorism”, but a transmutation of many other discourses used by the world’s great hegemonies to justify practices of domination and invigorate the subjugation that rules the relation I/others. In other to justify this hypothesis we will use the premises from the Social Theory of discourse, as well as the discursive contribution brought by the Copenhagen School through the concept of Securitization. In addition, a brief historical analysis will be made of the discourses of the US government and theoretical debates about the concept of terrorism, so that, finally, a comparison is made between the letters of the Jesuit missionary José de Anchieta and the European crowns during the sixteenth century, and the speeches of Former President Bush. Academic articles will also be used to deconstruct and decolonize the agenda of security studies in International Relations.