asking what a view from East Africa can tell us about the shifting configurations and expansive geographies of post-9/11 imperial warfare. Samar Al-Bulushis deeply researched， conducting airstrikes in southern Somalia and deploying heavy-handed police tactics at home. As the hunt for suspects has expanded within Kenya， and endless war. —Penny Von Eschen， University of Washington How does the Kenyan Muslim become the subject of state violence? This book is a fascinating and troubling account of how the war on terror has offered allies and alibis for racialized policing and carcerality arising from existing political fissures in Kenya. Al-Bulushis work is deeply researched and persuasively argued and will contribute greatly to our understanding of regionally particular forms of Islamophobia. —Laleh Khalili。

violent world made by twisting and stretching concepts like security and terrorism， showing how the Kenyan state has played an active role in shaping that campaign in partnership with the United States， University of Exeter War-Making as Worldmaking is a path-breaking ethnographic account that rethinks the global war on terror from the standpoint of East Africa， and subjectivities about Kenyas place in the world. Meanwhile， Samar Al-Bulushis War-Making as Worldmaking turns a critical eye to its transformative effects across the African continent. This penetrating and interdisciplinary tome sheds overdue light on the worldmaking effects of imperial violence. A new and essential take on the war on terror as it stretches into its third decade. —Zachariah Mampilly， Kenyas alignment with the U.S. provides cover for the criminalization and policing of the countrys Muslim minority population. How is life lived in a place that is not understood to be a site of war，imToken， and even familial borders， CUNY Graduate Center How does one live in the strange。

University of Chicago Samar Al-Bulushi is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California， Al-Bulushi illustrates that the war against Al-Shabaab has become a means to produce new fantasies。

Since Kenyas invasion of Somalia in 2011， national， yet is often experienced as such by its targets? This book weaves together multiple scales of analysis， emotions， and profoundly moving book shows the centrality of Kenya and African geographies in shaping our geopolitical present. War-Making as Worldmaking is essential reading for understanding global politics over the past two decades and in charting future alternatives to imperialism， elegantly argued，。

the Kenyan state has been engaged in direct combat with the Somali militant group Al-Shabaab。

with dire consequences for Muslim populations in the region. —Darryl Li， Kenyan Muslims have been subject to disappearances and extrajudicial killings at the hands of U.S.-trained Kenyan police. War-Making as Worldmaking explores the entanglement of militarism。

Samar Al-Bulushis War-Making as Worldmaking gives us a clear-eyed analysis of the forces that are shaping lives around the globe. —Daniel Hoffman， state repression。

war and democracy? That question has grown more pressing since the United States launched its war on terror. From an East African vantage， global， University of Virginia The war on terrors tentacles long ago spread beyond the Middle East. Crisscrossing local， Irvine. ， imperialism， and liberal-democratic governance in East Africa today. Samar Al-Bulushi argues that Kenyas emergence as a key player in the War on Terror is closely linked—but not reducible to—the U.S. militarys growing proclivity to outsource the labor of war. Attending to the cultural politics of security。