Neoliberalism and Terror
Critical Engagements
- 200 pages
- English
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Neoliberalism and Terror
Critical Engagements
About this book
Terrorism and neoliberalism are connected in multiple, complex, and often camouflaged ways. This book offers a critical exploration of some of the intersections between the two, drawing on a wide range of case studies from the United States, United Kingdom, Brazil, and the European Union. Contributors to the book investigate the impact of neoliberal technologies and intellectual paradigms upon contemporary counterterrorism – where the neoliberal era frames counter-terrorism within an endless war against political uncertainty. Others resist the notion that a separation ever existed between neoliberalism and counter-terrorism. These contributions explore how counterterrorism is already itself an exercise of neoliberalism which practices a form of 'Class War on Terror'. Finally, other contributors investigate the representation of terrorism within contemporary cultural products such as video games, in order to explore the perpetuation of neoliberal and statist agendas.
In doing all of this, the book situates post-9/11 counter-terrorism discourse and practice within much-needed historical contexts, including the evolution of capitalism and the state. Neoliberalism and Terror will be of great interest to readers within the fields of International Relations, Security Studies, Terrorism Studies, and beyond. This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Studies on Terrorism.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Citation Information
- 1. Introduction: neoliberalism and/as terror
- 2. The Universal Adversary will attack: pigs, pirates, zombies, Satan and the class war
- 3. The epistemological crisis of counterterrorism
- 4. Class war-on-terror: counterterrorism, accumulation, crisis
- 5. Against state terror: lessons on memory, counterterrorism and resistance from the Global South
- 6. Conjuring up the next attack: the future-orientedness of terror and the counterterrorist imagination
- 7. De-radicalisation interventions as technologies of the self: a Foucauldian analysis
- 8. Performativity and the project: enacting urban transport security in Europe
- 9. Going fifth freedom: fighting the War on Terror in the Splinter Cell: Blacklist video game
- 10. Why me? An autoethnographic account of the bizarre logic of counterterrorism
- 11. PREVENT: creating “radicals” to strengthen anti-Muslim narratives
- Index