RT Journal Article
T1 ISIS and Al-Qaeda as strategies and political imaginaries in Africa: a comparison between Boko Haram and Al-Qaeda in the islamic Maghreb
A1 Raineri, Luca
A1 Martini, Alice
AB By analysing Boko Haram and Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, this article argues that ascriptions to international jihadist brands are linked to local movements’ political economy and geopolitical imaginaries, and, therefore, driven more by contingent strategic considerations rather than by ideological motives. Consequently, three sets of evidence are discussed, by drawing also on fieldwork conducted in Mali and Niger from 2013 to 2016: the discourses of these actors; their political economies; their use of political violence. In conclusion, we analyse the ‘territorialised-deterritorialised cleavage’ and argue that this has greater heuristic value to understand African ‘jihadisms’ than existing categorisations of political violence.
PB Routledge
SN 1369-8249
YR 2017
FD 2017
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/114943
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/114943
LA eng
NO Raineri, Luca, and Alice Martini. 2017. “ISIS and Al-Qaeda as Strategies and Political Imaginaries in Africa: A Comparison between Boko Haram and Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.” Civil Wars 19 (4): 425–47. doi:10.1080/13698249.2017.1413226.
DS Docta Complutense
RD 10 abr 2025