“9/11 is alive and well” or how critical terrorism studies has sustained the 9/11 narrative

Toros, Harmonie

doi:10.1080/17539153.2017.1337326

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“…In conclusion, I want to emphasize that the concerns raised about the laboratory thesis travel well beyond discussions about Palestine/Israel. They reflect a far wider set of challenges about how to conduct critical research on the global war on terror without reifying the dominant terms of analysis and public debate (see Toros, 2017). They may even travel further than this.…”

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Reconsidering the laboratory thesis: Palestine/Israel and the geopolitics of representation

Machold

2018

Political Geography

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Recently, there has been a surge of interest in the notion of Palestine/Israel as a 'laboratory' for the production and export of advanced weapons, security knowhow and technology. Critics of Israeli wars and the ongoing colonization of Palestine use the laboratory metaphor to make sense of Israeli state policies and practices used in controlling Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) and fighting wars but also to address how Israeli instruments of violence come to travel elsewhere. This article brings these discussions into sharper focus by examining how the concept of the laboratory is employed in making sense of Israel's perceived centrality in global patterns violence and militarism, here termed the laboratory thesis. I argue that although the thesis develops powerful insights, it has analytical limitations. I further call into question its polemical force, suggesting that critical references to Palestine/Israel as a laboratory reinforce misleading ideological tropes at the core of Israel's settler colonial project. I take these concerns as an opportunity to reassemble the policing/security laboratory as a critical concept, in relation to Palestine/Israel, the global war on terror and beyond.

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Reconsidering the laboratory thesis: Palestine/Israel and the geopolitics of representation

Machold

2018

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“…Examining the discursive construction of terrorism by and among non-Western actors -such as the Moroccan political elite -can help to clarify and reveal more nuanced underlying aspects of the terrorism narrative. To that end, the hegemonic implications of employing '9/11' as a starting and defining point for even critical terrorism studies has been criticized, and the importance of alternative chronologies emphasized (Tsui, 2014(Tsui, , 2015Toros, 2017). It would indeed be misleading to think of the Global Terrorist narrative as something that sprung out of nowhere in September 2001, and its enhanced importance as a global legitimized framing of threats must be carefully contextualized.…”

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Securitization Revisited

Butler

2019

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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2020 selection and editorial matter, Michael J. Butler; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Michael J. Butler to be identified as the author of the editorial matter, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.With the exception of Chapter 6, no part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.Chapter 6 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

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“…First, to take the opportunity to (once again) recognise and reflect on the duration, consequences, and costs of 9/11's aftermath; an aftermath characterised by a war on terror that has stretched not only across continents and policy domains, but across decades too now. And, second, explicitly to call into question the widespread framing of those attacks as a powerful temporal marker complicit not only in contemporary responses to political resistance and violence, but also in the understanding, research and teaching of the politics of counter-terrorism (Jarvis 2009;Holland and Jarvis 2014;Toros 2017). Such aspirations compel critical engagement with technologies of "commemoration" and "remembrance", including through ceremonies, monuments, and practices (Jarvis 2010;Heath-Kelly 2016, 2018.…”

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Editors’ introduction: what place for 9/11 in critical terrorism studies?

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Jarvis

2021

Critical Studies on Terrorism

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“9/11 is alive and well” or how critical terrorism studies has sustained the 9/11 narrative

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Cited by 27 publications

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Reconsidering the laboratory thesis: Palestine/Israel and the geopolitics of representation

Reconsidering the laboratory thesis: Palestine/Israel and the geopolitics of representation

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Editors’ introduction: what place for 9/11 in critical terrorism studies?

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