Radicalisation, counter-radicalisation, and Prevent : a vernacular approach /
This book offers the first sustained investigation into non-elite understandings of radicalization and counter-radicalization policy. Drawing on original focus group research with students from universities across England and Wales, the book explores how ‘ordinary’ citizens understand radicalization...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
[2024].
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| Summary: | This book offers the first sustained investigation into non-elite understandings of radicalization and counter-radicalization policy. Drawing on original focus group research with students from universities across England and Wales, the book explores how ‘ordinary’ citizens understand radicalization, how they make sense of counter-radicalization initiatives like the UK Prevent Strategy, and how they evaluate its functioning and effects across society. Radicalization, counter-radicalization and Prevent demonstrates that these non-elite insights often contradict and diverge from traditional (elite) security knowledge and thus shed new light on wider questions around the politics of security. This has vitally important implications not only for counter-radicalization and counter-terrorism policy but for the very study and practice of security. |
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| Physical Description: | 181 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [159]-177) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1526172739 9781526172730 |