Enough is enough: the UK Prevent Strategy and normative invalidation

Bentley, Michelle

doi:10.1017/eis.2018.10

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“…This framework also unites change and continuity (resolving discomfort 111 with structuralist models depriving discursive practice of agency). On the one hand, the conceptual archive is concerned with continuities, per its intention to connect past and present.…”

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Introducing the ‘conceptual archive’: A genealogy of counterterrorism in 1970s Britain

Livesey

2023

Eur. j. of int. secur.

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This article contributes to an ‘historical turn’ in security scholarship. It addresses imbalance in security studies’ attention to historical empirics, and argues against notions of temporal disjunct prevalent within the discipline. I employ a genealogical framework to clarify the interpellation of past and present; and I introduce the ‘conceptual archive’ as a lens for pursuing that interpellation in research. My thesis on the ‘conceptual archive’ represents a twofold contribution. Firstly, a conceptual contribution: I advance the ‘conceptual archive’ as a way of thinking about past-present interpellation (specifically, existing conceptual logics’ remodelling in arguments justifying new practice). Secondly, an analytical contribution: I propose the ‘conceptual archive’ as a tool for doing genealogy (a research programme with historicising promise, but one suffering nebulous operationalisation at present). I use the field of terrorism studies as an entry-point to these contributions: adopting a mixed-methods research design to trace British counterterrorism practices’ roots within an ‘archive’ of logics on Northern Ireland. I find 1970s British governments remodelled long-standing ‘archival’ vocabularies in their arguments for new security provisions: framing exceptional practices according to an accepted fabric of concepts.

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Section: The Conceptual Archivementioning

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Introducing the ‘conceptual archive’: A genealogy of counterterrorism in 1970s Britain

Livesey

2023

Eur. j. of int. secur.

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“…Bigo and Guittet, 2011; Heath-Kelly, 2013; Mythen et al, 2017; Pantazis and Pemberton, 2009). Within that context, studies have explored the ways in which counter-terrorism and counter-radicalisation policies are developed and justified (Bentley, 2018; Edwards, 2016; Heath-Kelly, 2013; Mythen et al, 2017). Others have analysed the broader repercussions of such policies for Muslim communities and other ‘suspect populations’ (Heath-Kelly, 2012; Kundnani, 2015; Pantazis and Pemberton, 2009; Thomas, 2010).…”

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Localising ‘radicalisation’: Risk assessment practices in Greece and the United Kingdom

Skleparis

Knudsen

2020

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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This article juxtaposes anti-radicalisation policy in the United Kingdom, one of the pioneers in the field, with Greece, one of the latecomers. Drawing on localisation theory, our aim is to understand how ‘common knowledge’ of radicalisation and counter-radicalisation has materialised in the United Kingdom and Greece by exploring the development and use of radicalisation-related risk and vulnerability assessment tools. We argue that the radicalisation ‘knowledge’ was localised more seamlessly in the United Kingdom, which can be attributed to the country’s ‘norm producer’ status on the field of European counter-radicalisation. By contrast, the ‘knowledge’ was subjected to significant ‘re-framing’ and ‘stretching’ to fit with the Greek context. This is associated with the country’s ‘norm adopter’ status on the field of European counter-radicalisation, as well as with a ‘spill-over effect’ from a national context of deeply polarising and contentious counter-terrorism policies. We maintain that these localisation processes reveal two distinct assemblages of governing radicalisation.

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Victim versus villain: Repatriation policies for foreign fighters and the construction of gendered and racialised ‘threat narratives’

Stenger

2022

Eur. j. of int. secur.

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State responses to repatriation of Islamic State (ISIS) foreign fighters and their children detained across Syria and Iraq are highly diverse. Repatriation policies implemented between 2018 and 2020 range from denying repatriation of nationals and revocation of citizenship to repatriation and subsequent gender-responsive rehabilitation programmes. What explains the variation in state responses? This article seeks to explain why repatriation policies differ despite the global challenges faced by all states. It investigates and categorises the repatriation policies for foreign fighters across 69 countries ranging from unconditional repatriation to denying repatriation. To explain the state responses to a common security and human rights dilemma, a mixed-method approach is employed involving an explorative statistical analysis to test key explanations and a narrative analysis. The findings reveal how diverse social constructions of gendered and racialised ‘threat narratives’ of foreign fighters in policy documents and the media explain variation in foreign fighter repatriation policies.

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Enough is enough: the UK Prevent Strategy and normative invalidation

Cited by 5 publications

References 29 publications

Introducing the ‘conceptual archive’: A genealogy of counterterrorism in 1970s Britain

Introducing the ‘conceptual archive’: A genealogy of counterterrorism in 1970s Britain

Localising ‘radicalisation’: Risk assessment practices in Greece and the United Kingdom

Victim versus villain: Repatriation policies for foreign fighters and the construction of gendered and racialised ‘threat narratives’

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