UNMODELING MINORITIES: THE SIKH TEMPLE MASSACRE AND THE QUESTION OF SECURITY

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Notes

While there is no comprehensive report on hate crimes and hate speech since 9/11 in North Carolina, the report of the mainstream South Asian civil rights group SAALT lists 15 reported hate acts in the state in just the week following 9/11. See SAALT (2001).

I am thinking along with Michel Foucault's concept of governmentality (Foucault 2009a, 2009b), which suggests that specific rationalities of security modulate both the discipline of populations and the rationalities of state by infusing decision-making with concepts of balance, risk-aversion, and containment. See his two series of lectures, Security, territory, population and The birth of biopolitics, both published by Palgrave.