Counter-Radicalisation
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Counter-Radicalisation
About This Book
This book offers a wide-ranging and critical examination of recent counter-radicalisation policies, using case studies from several countries.
Counter-radicalisation policies, such as the UK 'Prevent' strategy, have been highly controversial and increasingly criticised since their introduction. In this edited volume, voices from disciplines including sociology, political science, criminology and International Relations are brought together to address issues across the global roll-out of counter-radicalisation agendas. In so doing, the book critically interrogates: (i) the connections between counter-radicalisation and other governmental programmes and priorities relating to integration and community cohesion; (ii) the questionable dependence of counter-radicalisation initiatives on discourses and assumptions about race, risk and vulnerability to extremism; and, (iii) the limitations of existing counter-radicalisation machineries for addressing relatively new types of extremism including amongst 'right-wing' activists.
Through examining these questions, the book draws on a range of contemporary case studies spanning from counter-radicalisation in the UK, Germany and Denmark, through to detailed analyses of specific preventative initiatives in Australia and the United States. Conceptually, the chapters engage with a range of critical approaches, including discourse theory, autoethnography and governmentality.
This book will be of much interest to students of radicalisation, critical terrorism studies, counter-terrorism, sociology, security studies and IR in general.
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Index
- Active Change Foundation (ACF) 208
- active citizenship 94, 193, 227, 229
- Adenauer, Konrad 94
- Afghan Mujahedin 24
- al Qaeda 8, 25, 27, 56, 69, 77, 79–80, 83, 109–12, 177, 179, 182
- Al-Daour, Tariq 177
- Allen, John 146
- Al-Muhajiroun 26, 27, 110, 113
- ideological propagation 27
- Al-Shabaab 233
- Altheide, David 72–3
- American Highway Watch scheme 167
- American Trucking Association 167
- Anderson, Benedict 141, 192
- anti-Semitic sentiment and violence 94
- anti-social identity 61
- Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act (ATCSA, 2001), UK 159
- Anwar, Muhammad 151
- Archer, Toby 141
- Aryan Defence League (ADL) 111–12
- Ashcroft, Lord 130
- Ashour, Omar 209–11
- Associated Press 29
- asylum seekers 72–3, 78, 133
- Atran, Scott 182
- Australia, counter-terrorism strategies in: ASIO National Security Assessment 75
- assessment of 71
- asylum seekers and 72
- Building Community Resilience (BCR) Grants Program 76
- Common Curriculum Framework for teaching Islamic studies 77
- Countering Violent Extremism Strategy 76, 81
- emergence and exposure through counter narratives 81–5
- flawed assumptions about radicalisation and 78–81
- and focus on individual radicalisation 81
- framing the problem for 71–3
- Islamic primary and secondary schools 77
- law enforcement and judicial capacity to counter terrorism 74
- marginalisation hypothesis 78–9
- National Action Plan to Build Social Cohesion, Harmony and Security (2006) 75, 81
- National Anti-Terrorist Plan 73
- National Counter-Terrorism Committee 73
- National Terrorism Publ...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Radicalisation: the journey of a concept
- Prevent and Community Cohesion in Britain: the worst of all possible worlds?
- How (not) to create ex-terrorists: Prevent as ideological warfare
- Countering violent extremism: social harmony, community resilience and the potential of counter-narratives in the Australian context
- Prevent abroad: militant democracy, right-wing extremism and the prevention of Islamic extremism in Berlin
- Recognition masking response: preventing far-right extremism and radicalisation
- Challenging far-right extremism: the other side of the coin?
- Mapping the Muslim community: the politics of counter-radicalisation in Britain
- Policed multiculturalism? The impact of counter-terrorism and counter-radicalization and the ‘end’ of multiculturalism
- Prevent and the internet
- Challenging the separation of counter-terrorism and community cohesion in Prevent: the potential threat of the ‘radicalised’ subject
- Prevent 2011 and counter-radicalisation: what is de-radicalisation?
- Refocusing Danish counter-radicalisation efforts:an analysis of the (problematic) logic and practice of individual de-radicalisation interventions
- Index