Global counter-terrorism : a decolonial approach /

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...

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Main Authors: Dutta, Sagnik (Author), Bergh, Sylvia I. (Sylvia Irene), 1976- (Author), Abbas, Tahir, 1970- (Author)
Corporate Author: Walter de Gruyter & Co
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2025]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : a decolonial approach to counter-terrorism in a global context / Sagnik Dutta, Tahir Abbas, and Sylvia I. Bergh
  • Part I. Colonialism and counter-terrorism. Colonial law and normal violence : The racialised, gendered and classed development of counterterrorism / Alice Finden; Pashtun stereotyping and the marginalisation of non-violent movements in post-9/11 Pakistan / Farooq Yousaf; Policing 'terrorist' propaganda : A study of counter-terrorism strategies in colonial Bengal 1908-18 / Lumbini Sharma; The French domestic counter-terrorism framework : unravelling the colonial matrix in shaping bodies and the response to terrorism / Marine Guéguin
  • Part II. Global, national, and everyday counter-terrorism practices. Comparative counter-terrorism : all for one, but NOT one for all / Graig R. Klein; After the bombing of the Norwegian Government Quarter on 22 July 2011 : changes in discourses on urban counterterrorism 1990-2020 / Sissel Haugdal Jore ; 'It takes a village' : the collective securitisation of social policy related to preventing and countering violent extremism in the European Union / Inés Bolaños-Somoano; The individual and the intimate in counter-terrorism : the case of the British government's Prevent strategy / Amna Kaleem
  • Part III. Counter-terrorism, radicalisation, and right-wing extremism. The securitisation of Muslims and the growth of far-right extremism in Canada / Naved Bakali and Barbara Perry; 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; Conspiracy theories and right-wing extremism : the case of Q-Anon / Dean J. Smith, Ewan Bottomley, and Kenneth Mavor
  • Index.