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Counter-Hegemony in “The Road to Guantánamo”

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Road to Guantanamo
“The War on Terror”
The Road to Guantanamo is a docudrama about three men, British citizens--Shafiq Rasul, Asif Iqbal and Ruhel Ahmed, childhood friends from Tipton were captured and held for more than two years without due process in Guantanamo Bay, where they had been denied all contact with the world. Consider articles from your class readings speak to the issues portrayed by/in the film, which are available on youtube: https://youtu(dot)be/SXCth19kwRw
1) The “War on Terrorism” (and neoliberalism) produces certain subjects who are according to Asad, legitimately considered outside of our humanist sensibility who are subject to torture and killing. Using the film as a source of what “knowledge from below” (Harraway), discuss how the film offers a counter-hegemonic narrative that speaks to the ways in which racialized discourses of “terror” (and/or “rape”) produce new and different forms of subjecthood, who are actors/agents and/or objects of disciplinary technologies?

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Counterhegemony in “The Road to Guantánamo”
Wars and acts of terrorism illustrate the essence of power and its significance to win. During these times, a specific country or group of people usually has supremacy. When there is domination, there is also subjugation. The one who holds power can dictate how the world sees the conquered people. This produced racialized views about people in inferior countries. The Road to Guantánamo portrays how the dominant nations give false and racialized portrayals of other nations, particularly their people.
The film is a story about three British men who were from Tipton. Despite being British citizens, they were Bangladeshi and Pakistani in origin. In 2001, they traveled to Pakistan to attend their friend's wedding a few days before the September 11 terrorist attack in the World Trade Center in the United States. Before the wedding, the three decided to take a ride to Afghanistan to ascertain the chaotic situation. Together with another two friends, they crossed the border, which was the exact time when the U.S. firefighter planes attacked the Taliban groups all over Afghanistan. They were all safe and decided to return to Pakistan because of the pandemoni...
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