Violence, Terrorism, and Identity Politics in Afghanistan: The Securitisation of Higher Education

This article investigates the securitisation of higher education sector in Afghanistan by examining ‘hidden’ non-discursive practices as opposed to overt discursive threat construction. Non-discursive are framed habitus inherited from different social fields, whereas Afghanistan, securitising actors converge (e.g., institutions, professions, backgrounds) bar ‘other’ ethnic or groups resources and spaces which could empower these become a pertinent threat, fear, danger monopoly state elites over power resources. The most prominent emerging data include mainly (1) obstruction formation critical ideas politics; (2) economic opportunities; (3) justice. deploys case study methodology uses Kabul University its subject investigation.