A subaltern critical geopolitics of the war on terror: Postcolonial security in Tanzania

► Studies of non-western perceptions of current geopolitics and the nature of fear can benefit critical political geography. ► Geopolitical representations from Tanzanian newspapers challenges the binary geopolitics of the War on Terror. ► This subaltern geopolitics relocates fear in retaliation, recognising shared precariousness in the geopolitical realm.