ABSTRACT
Ecologizing terrorism begins with approaching the study of terrorism as a place that ethnographers inhabit along with other living beings. At the core of academic studies focused on the problem of terrorism lies the necessity of recognizing the continued experiences of colonialism and the consequent counter-struggles for liberation. Ethnographic research practices allow for the narrative encounter and exposition of these experiences and struggles of both the colonizer and the colonized who are caught in the crossfires of political violence in which terrorism is assigned a unique value. The chapter examines pathways of ethnographic inquiry and analyses that emerge by ecologizing the terrorist and terrorism as a site of fieldwork, in attending to the normative challenges presented to the researcher by the construction of a racialized terrorist. Careful attention to the construction of ethnographic authority and self-fashioning is certainly an implication for researchers employing a politically engaged ethnographic methodology.
