Jarvis, Lee ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4149-7135 and Lister, Michael
(2017)
‘As a woman…’; ‘As a Muslim…’: Subjects, positions and counter-terrorism powers in the United Kingdom.
Critical Social Policy, 37 (2).
pp. 245-267.
ISSN 0261-0183
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Abstract
This article presents findings from original focus group research on the importance of identity claims within public understandings of counter-terrorism across the UK. Following a review of existing literature on the terrorism/counter-terrorism/identity nexus, the article introduces four prominent subject positions inhabited within public articulations of counter-terrorism powers: the ‘Muslim’, the ‘target’, the ‘woman’ and the ‘unaffected’. Positions such as these, we argue, both enable and inhibit particular normative, political and anecdotal claims about counter-terrorism frameworks and their impact upon the body politic. This, we suggest, is demonstrative of the co-constitutive role between counter-terrorism and identity claims. Thus, on the one hand, counter-terrorism initiatives work to position individuals socially, politically, and culturally: (re)producing various religious, ethnic and other identities. Yet, at the same time, specific subject positions are integral to the articulation of people’s attitudes toward developments in counter-terrorism. The article concludes by thinking through some of the implications of this, including for resistance toward securitising moves and for citizenship more generally.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | counter-terrorism,terrorism,identity,subjectivity,religion,ethnicity,gender,sdg 16 - peace, justice and strong institutions ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/peace_justice_and_strong_institutions |
Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies |
UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Critical Global Politics Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Political, Social and International Studies |
Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
Date Deposited: | 15 Nov 2016 17:00 |
Last Modified: | 28 Jan 2024 02:12 |
URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/61365 |
DOI: | 10.1177/0261018316684506 |
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