'Suspect Categories, ' Alienation and Counterterrorism: Critically Assessing PREVENT in the UK. Issue 4 (18th May 2020)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- 'Suspect Categories, ' Alienation and Counterterrorism: Critically Assessing PREVENT in the UK. Issue 4 (18th May 2020)
- Main Title:
- 'Suspect Categories, ' Alienation and Counterterrorism: Critically Assessing PREVENT in the UK
- Authors:
- Taylor, Joel David
- Abstract:
- ABSTRACT: The 'suspect community' thesis has been a primary tool for exploring counter-terrorism strategies like the UK's PREVENT and their effect on communities. However, in seeking to shed light on the differentialist, complex nature of modern counter-terrorism, it was recently redesigned by Ragazzi as the 'suspect category' thesis. This article engages with this thesis' concept of distinguished 'risky' and 'trusted' suspect categories defining PREVENT's counter-terrorism engagement with Muslim communities. With the author's own reservations about this thesis, this article also explores this important concept to critically assess PREVENT as a counter-terrorism strategy. Principally, it provides an exploration of PREVENT's construction of risky and trusted suspect categories and their potential for fostering alienation, as well as a reflection on the effects of alienation on counter-terrorism. These discussions prove that PREVENT fosters alienation that is detrimental to counter-terrorism efforts. Damaging constructions as such not only make PREVENT redundant, but are also emblematic of Jackson's theory of the epistemological crisis of counter-terrorism, as this article will discuss. Recommendations regarding rethinking the conceptual basis for PREVENT will be also made with a specific emphasis on addressing the epistemological crisis of counter-terrorism.
- Is Part Of:
- Terrorism and political violence. Volume 32:Issue 4(2020)
- Journal:
- Terrorism and political violence
- Issue:
- Volume 32:Issue 4(2020)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 32, Issue 4 (2020)
- Year:
- 2020
- Volume:
- 32
- Issue:
- 4
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2020-0032-0004-0000
- Page Start:
- 851
- Page End:
- 873
- Publication Date:
- 2020-05-18
- Subjects:
- Alienation -- counter-terrorism -- suspect community -- radicalisation -- critical terrorism studies -- PREVENT
Terrorism -- Periodicals
Violence -- Periodicals
303.62505 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ftpv20/current ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/09546553.2017.1415889 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0954-6553
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- Legaldeposit
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- British Library DSC - 8796.127000
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