Mohan Dutta: Culture-Centered Approach

Image taken from the Twitter account @grugstan depicting Nazi salute at the anti-transgender rally in Australia, March 18, 2023 The Christchurch terrorist attack is often individualized in mainstream public discourse as the act of an individual extremist.  This individualization of white supremacist violence is an essential feature of the whiteness of the settler colonial state. In this individualizing ideology, violence is attributed to a lone extremist who has been radicalized.  The Christchurch terrorist attack on two masjids in March, 2019 killed  44 Muslims praying at the mosque The response then is an individualizing response, directed at the individual extremist with the justice system of the settler colonial state organized to respond to the extremist.  The intelligence-security apparatus of the settler colonial state is organized around techniques of surveillance and monitoring directed at identifying and containing individuals likely to be radicalized and turned into extremis