Stuart Croft

Securitizing Islam

Identity and the Search for Security

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Produktbeschreibung

Securitizing Islam shows how views of Muslims have changed in Britain since 9/11, following debates over terrorism, identity and multiculturalism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 150mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781107632868
• ISBN-10: 1107632862
• Artikelnr.: 34384824

Autorenporträt

Stuart Croft is Professor of International Security at the University of Warwick. His work is in the field of security studies and his most recent book is Culture, Crisis and America's War on Terror (2006).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Ontological security and Britishness
2. A post-Copenhagen securitisation theory
3. 'Two World Wars and one World Cup': constructing contemporary Britishness
4. 'New Britishness' and the 'new terrorism'
5. The construction of ontological insecurity
Conclusion.