Terrorism and Policy Relevance

Critical Perspectives
Herausgeber: Fitzgerald, James; Armstrong, Megan A; Ali, Nadya

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores the interrelationship between terrorism and policy relevance from a range of critical perspectives. In particular, it questions the politics of policy-relevance; that is, it interrogates how epistemological and practical pressures to produce "policy-relevant" research shapes prevalent understandings of (counter)terrorism, and vice-versa.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 154
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 281g
• ISBN-13: 9780367142209
• ISBN-10: 0367142201
• Artikelnr.: 56925559

Autorenporträt

James Fitzgerald is Lecturer in Terrorism Studies at the School of Law and Government, Dublin City University and co-convenor of the BISA Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group. His current research interests include everyday resistances to (counter)terrorism; the political ontology of terrorism; and exploring (in)orthodoxies of "academic writing" and the types of knowledge produced thereof. Nadya Ali is a Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sussex. She is currently a co-convenor of the BISA Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group. Nadya has published on topics including the female jihad, counter-radicalisation in the UK and UK mosque reforms in the last decade. Megan Armstrong is co-convenor of the BISA Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group. Her main research interests focus on examines the role of the sexualised body in violent identity politics.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Editors' introduction: critical terrorism studies: reflections on
policy-relevance and disciplinarity 2. Critical terrorism studies,
victimisation, and policy relevance: compromising politics or challenging
hegemony? 3. Terror from behind the keyboard: conceptualising faceless
detractors and guarantors of security in cyberspace 4. "Read it in the
papers, seen it on TV...": the 1981 Libyan hit squad scare as a case of
simulated terrorism in the United States 5. Ask the audience: television,
security and Homeland 6. Interrogating representations of "militants" and
"terrorists" in the United States' Militant Imagery Project and the
Counterterrorism Calendar 7. To be or not to be policy relevant? Power,
emancipation and resistance in CTS research 8. Dialogue, praxis and the
state: a response to Richard Jackson 9. Counter-radicalisation policy
across Europe: an interview with Maarten van de Donk (Radicalisation
Awareness Network) 10. Frontline perspectives on preventing violent
extremism: an interview with Alyas Karmani (STREET UK) 11. West German
radical protest in the long 1960s