Counterterrorism and Colonialism

Everyday Violence in Britain and Egypt

Alice Finden

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781040335789
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This book uses feminist and postcolonial approaches to archival research and interviews to interrogate the persistence of colonial logics in contemporary counterterrorism practice, exposing how forms of state violence are normalised and legitimised. The book investigates the historical development of preventive tools through the discursive imagery of vulnerability, morality and extremism that characterise contemporary counterterrorism and counter-violent extremism in Britain and Egypt. In so doing the book argues that counterterror tools are based upon a colonial hierarchy of humanity that legitimises more violent treatment for racialised, classed and gendered subjects. This volume will appeal to scholars and students of critical terrorism studies, socio-legal studies and criminology. It will also fit within sociology and critical theory courses on postcolonialism and gender studies as well as courses on colonialism, feminist histories and critical legal history, international politics, international relations, and Middle Eastern politics.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Endorsements Page
• Half-Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication Page
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: The Colonial Rule of Law and the Everyday
• Part I Colonial Logics and Hierarchical Governance
• Part II Postcolonial Patterns of Governance
• Conclusion: Continuities of Violence and a Feminist Praxis of Hope
• Index