Full Description
This collection aims to inaugurate a new direction in research on counterterrorism by exploring global connections - both in terms of practices and discourses, as well as shared ideas and epistemes - that animate counterterrorism practices. The chapters - grouped under the themes of postcoloniality and coloniality, and entanglements of the transnational and the local, and counterterrorism and right-wing extremism - are attentive to global connections and are mindful of the complexities of global historical processes that constitute the politics of counterterrorism. This book aims to bring together scholars studying counterterrorism in the global North and the global South to explore convergence and divergence in how counterterrorism policies function in a range of national and local contexts.
The Introduction is available Open Access on manchesterhive.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Counterterrorism in a global context: a decolonial approach - Sagnik Dutta, Tahir Abbas, and Sylvia I. Bergh
Part I: Colonialism and counterterrorism
1. Colonial law and normal violence: The racialised, gendered and classed development of counterterrorism - Alice Finden
2. Pashtun stereotyping and the marginalisation of non-violent movements in post-9/11 Pakistan - Farooq Yousaf
3. Policing 'terrorist' propaganda: A study of counterterrorism strategies in colonial Bengal (1908-1918) - Lumbini Sharma
4. The French domestic counterterrorism framework: Unravelling the colonial matrix in shaping bodies and the response to terrorism - Marine Guéguin
Part II Global, national, and everyday counterterrorism practices
5. Comparative counterterrorism: All for One, but NOT One for All - Graig R. Klein
6. After the bombing of the Norwegian Government Quarter on 22 July 2011: Changes in discourses on urban counterterrorism 1990-2020 - Sissel Haugdal Jore
7. 'It takes a village': The collective securitization of social policy related to preventing and countering violent extremism (PCVE) in the European Union - Inés Bolaños-Somoano
8. The individual and the intimate in counter-terrorism: the case of the British government's Prevent Strategy - Amna Kaleem
Part III: Counterterrorism, radicalisation, and right-wing extremism
9. The securitisation of Muslims and the growth of far-right extremism in Canada - Naved Bakali and Barbara Perry
10. The spectre of the predatory Muslim man: Tracing far-right gendered imaginaries and counter-terrorism policies in the cases of love jihad and the Great Replacement - Eviane Leidig
11. Conspiracy theories and right-wing extremism: The case of Q-Anon - Dean Smith, Ewan Bottomley, and Ken Mavor
