Critical Studies on Terrorism最新文献

{"title":"Resistances to citizenship deprivation’s sweeping march: what do constitutional structures have to do with it?","authors":"Rachel Pougnet","doi":"10.1080/17539153.2025.2569912","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17539153.2025.2569912","url":null,"abstract":"This article responds to emerging claims within the literature to take politics seriously when explaining state’s security practices. In particular, it examines failures to expand citizenship deprivation powers on terrorism grounds and argues that the analytical framework of “failed securitisation” cannot alone explain these resistances. This article claims that critical security studies should take state’s constitutional structures into consideration when analysing state’s security practices. Drawing on an empirical comparison of changes to citizenship deprivation powers in France and the UK between 2014 and 2016, when the UK government succeeded in reinstating the possibility for the government to make individuals stateless in limited circumstances, but France failed to do the same, it shows that the French “resistance” has much to do with the rigidity of its constitutional structure.","PeriodicalId":46483,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies on Terrorism","volume":"18 4","pages":"858-878"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147897039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘Enemy of the state’: citizenship deprivation and the problem of returning foreign terrorist fighters","authors":"Andrea Birdsall","doi":"10.1080/17539153.2024.2427524","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17539153.2024.2427524","url":null,"abstract":"This paper analyses the UK’s law and practice of citizenship deprivation as a counterterrorism measure to deal with returning foreign terrorist fighters. What used to be an “exceptional” measure has become increasingly institutionalised to give the executive broad powers even at the risk of making an individual stateless. The paper shows how the construction of the terrorist “other” and the resulting politics of fear lead to a productive relationship between law and securitisation: the executive is using law as a tool to justify its decisions in the process of securitisation, and securitisation becomes the driver for legal changes that institutionalises the executive’s power over its citizens. The paper uses the case of Shamima Begum and her attempts to return to argue that citizenship has become a securitised and racialised concept that is conditional on ill-defined criteria of what it means to be a “good” British citizen. Citizenship has shifted from being a right to being a privilege, contingent on the Home Secretary’s assessment of whether an individual adheres to “British values”. The fact that this only affects those of foreign heritage, means that there are different classes of citizenship which raises important questions of fairness and equality.","PeriodicalId":46483,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies on Terrorism","volume":"18 1","pages":"246-268"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147918130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Resilient non-radicalisers: beating the odds through non-radicalisation despite significant suffering","authors":"Kamil Yılmaz, Mehmet Alper Sozer, Niyazi Ekici, Joe Whittaker","doi":"10.1080/17539153.2024.2397148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17539153.2024.2397148","url":null,"abstract":"This study explores how and why some individuals are resilient to radicalisation by focusing on individuals who were labelled “terrorists” for their alleged involvement or support for an attempted coup that took place in Turkey on 15 July 2016, yet who have shown no sign of violent radicalisation since. Drawing from 15 interviews, it assesses both the potential radicalisation risk factors that the participants display, such as political persecution, imprisonment, torture, social pressure and forced migration. Then, it explores participants’ explanation for why they have not become radicalised, including the role of the Hizmet doctrine, their religious adherence, individual personality traits and resources (e.g. social capital) through a socioecological framework. While terrorism studies have focused extensively on pathways towards radicalisation and countering radicalisation, this study contributes to a small body of research to explore the notion of “non-radicalisation”, informing the literature on resilience and protective factors towards larger populations.","PeriodicalId":46483,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies on Terrorism","volume":"18 1","pages":"45-73"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147889989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Metapolitics, algorithms and violence: new right activism and terrorism in the attention economy","authors":"Wawan Kurniawan","doi":"10.1080/17539153.2024.2370649","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17539153.2024.2370649","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46483,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies on Terrorism","volume":"17 3","pages":"812-815"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147902802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Countering reactionary co-radicalization (RC-R): using multi-representational ads","authors":"H. Shabbir, Paul Baines, Dianne Dean, Kurt Braddock","doi":"10.1080/17539153.2023.2295062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17539153.2023.2295062","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46483,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies on Terrorism","volume":"91 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139164009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Killed for the abominable crime of sodomy”: building legitimacy with public executions of sexual and gender minorities in the Islamic state","authors":"Harry H. J. Lehtolaakso","doi":"10.1080/17539153.2023.2286712","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17539153.2023.2286712","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46483,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies on Terrorism","volume":"16 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139205731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Looking beyond waves and datasets: ”cultures of terrorism” and the future of history in terrorism studies","authors":"Chris Millington","doi":"10.1080/17539153.2023.2285224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17539153.2023.2285224","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46483,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies on Terrorism","volume":"19 9","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139243810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Critical terrorism studies and numbers: engagements, openings, and future research","authors":"Lee Jarvis","doi":"10.1080/17539153.2023.2267280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17539153.2023.2267280","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Recent years have witnessed a growing multi-disciplinary engagement with the importance of quantification across social, political, and economic life. In this article, I seek to build on this work by offering the first sustained exposition of the significance of numbers for critical scholarship on (counter-)terrorism. Three arguments are made. First, there is evidence of greater appetite for engaging with numbers in critical terrorism studies scholarship than might be intuited, given this work’s widespread association with linguistic and discursive approaches. Second, notwithstanding the above, existing scholarship in this area tends to be limited, fragmentary, and characterised by illustrative or exemplary engagement. And third, there is significant opportunity to move towards a more substantive critical engagement with (counter-)terrorism numbers through inspiration from cognate debates within sociology, rhetorical studies, and critical security studies. To address this, the article therefore provides a new research agenda for critical terrorism studies scholarship and quantification, organised around five themes: (i) the production of (counter-)terrorism numbers; (ii) the form taken by (counter-)terrorism numbers; (iii) the mobility of numbers across sites of (counter-)terrorism knowledge; (iv) the political and other functions of (counter-)terrorism numbers; and (v) the reception of (counter-)terrorism numbers by relevant audiences.","PeriodicalId":46483,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies on Terrorism","volume":"46 12","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135169615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Fundamental British Values & the Prevent Duty in Scotland","authors":"Nick Brooke","doi":"10.1080/17539153.2023.2266161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17539153.2023.2266161","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTIn July 2015, a legal duty came into force as part of the United Kingdom’s Counter Terrorism and Security Act that included a requirement (referred to as the Prevent Duty) for schools and other education providers to “prevent people from being drawn into terrorism”. Parallel to this initiative, schools in England were also required to include teaching on “Fundamental British Values” as part of the curriculum, to “build pupil’s resilience to radicalisation”. Yet this latter element is not required in schools in Scotland. This paper argues that the absence of a requirement for teachers in Scotland to include teaching on Fundamental British Values simultaneously politicises and depoliticises the delivery of the Prevent Duty, and British identity in this context. In doing so, the paper contributes to existing debates on the relationship between the Prevent Duty and the Fundamental British Values, reflects on the political nature of these parallel initiatives and examines the security policy implications of the contentious nature of British identity in Scotland.KEYWORDS: PreventScotlandidentityfundamental British valuescounter-radicalisation AcknowledgementsThe author would like to thank Faye Donnelly, Tony Lang, Sarah Marsden and James Lewis, as well as the anonymous reviewers who provided feedback and comments at various stages of this paper.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Notes1. Defined as “democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance for those with different faiths and beliefs” in the Prevent Duty Guidance (HM Government Citation2015a).2. This applies to the literature on Prevent more generally: very little of the literature is focused on Scotland. Where this topic has been considered in relation to Northern Ireland (McCully and Clarke Citation2016) it has been highlighted that it does not apply, and that its implementation would “alienate and aggravate those nationalists who, historically, see the imposition of Britishness as central to the problem” (p. 361).3. Whilst it does include a reference to fundamental British values, this is only in reference to the definition of extremism given in the Prevent strategy.4. For an explanation of how the Prevent Strand has changed over time see Thomas (Citation2020).5. For more on this episode see Holmwood and O’Toole (Citation2018).6. Heath-Kelly and Strausz (Citation2019) writing on the Prevent duty in the NHS argue that this framing of vulnerability does not fit with existing understandings of the term.7. The SNP changed the name of the Scottish Executive to the Scottish Government upon winning power in 2007.8. For more on the history and distinctiveness of education in Scotland see (Anderson Citation1995, Citation2018; Humes and Bryce Citation2018)9. It is important to point out that the requirement to “not undermin[e] fundamental British values” was set out in the Teachers’ Standards for England for 2011 (Depar","PeriodicalId":46483,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies on Terrorism","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135901347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Obstacles and facilitators to intimate bystanders reporting violent extremism or targeted violence","authors":"David P. Eisenman, Stevan Weine, Paul Thomas, Michele Grossman, Natalie Porter, Nilpa D. Shah, Chloe Polutnik Smith, Zach Brahmbhatt, Michael Fernandes","doi":"10.1080/17539153.2023.2269011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17539153.2023.2269011","url":null,"abstract":"The first people to suspect someone is planning an act of terrorism or violent extremism are often those closest to them. Encouraging friends or family to report an “intimate” preparing to perpetrate violence is a strategy for preventing violent extremist or targeted mass violence. We conducted qualitative-quantitative interviews with 123 diverse U.S. community members to understand what influences their decisions to report potential violent extremist or targeted mass violence. We used hypothetical scenarios adapted from studies in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Factors influencing reporting decisions include fears of causing harm to the potential violent actor, self, family, or relationships; not knowing when and how to report; mistrust of law enforcement; access to mental health services; and perceptions that law enforcement lacks prevention capabilities. White and non-White participants were concerned about law enforcement causing harm. Participants would contact professionals such as mental health before involving law enforcement and Black-identified participants significantly preferred reporting to non-law enforcement persons, most of whom are not trained in responding to targeted violence. However, participants would eventually involve law enforcement if the situation required. They preferred reporting in-person or by telephone versus on-line. We found no difference by the type of violent extremism or between ideologically motivated and non-ideologically motivated violence. This study informs intimate bystander reporting programmes in the U.S. To improve reporting, U.S. policymakers should attend to how factors like police violence shape intimate bystander reporting. Our socio-ecological model also situates intimate bystander reporting beside other population-based approaches to violence prevention.","PeriodicalId":46483,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies on Terrorism","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135902673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}