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Cosmic Racial Holy War:Biopolitics and Bare-Life from the Creativity Movement to the War on Terror

Berry, Damon T.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1247255675

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2009, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Comparative Studies.
In this paper I argue that the phrase Racial Holly War, or RahoWa, as developed by the founder of the racialist religious organization known as the Creativity Movement, encapsulates a program of white racial survival and creates a world in which a global race-war is an inevitable and natural part of biological and social existence. I argue further that “cosmic war” as articulated by Mark Jeurgensmeyer, while it is a helpful concept, is ultimately inadequate to assess this particular phenomenon. In what I call "cosmic racial holy war" we find a zero-sum game in which the preferred population must either conquer the world or succumb to destruction; taking "civilization" with it. Further still, I argue that a biopolitical analysis, developed from the work of Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben, will show interesting linkages between RaHoWa and the War on Terror as a rhetorical device deployed to define a global program of defense for a precariously alive population which bears within itself the life of “civilization”; both of which are considered to be imperiled by the bare existence of an implacable enemy who is rendered as a biological threat to the people.
Hugh Urban, B. (Advisor)
Ruby Tapia (Committee Member)
Kwaku Korang (Committee Member)
47 p.
Religion
RaHoWa; War on Terror; biopolitics; bare-life; racialized; race-war

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  • Berry, D. T. (2009). Cosmic Racial Holy War:Biopolitics and Bare-Life from the Creativity Movement to the War on Terror [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1247255675

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Berry, Damon. Cosmic Racial Holy War:Biopolitics and Bare-Life from the Creativity Movement to the War on Terror. 2009. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1247255675.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Berry, Damon. "Cosmic Racial Holy War:Biopolitics and Bare-Life from the Creativity Movement to the War on Terror." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1247255675

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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