Counter-Terrorism and the Counterfactual: Producing the 'Radicalisation' Discourse and the UK PREVENT Strategy
Counter-Terrorism and the Counterfactual: Producing the 'Radicalisation' Discourse and the UK PREVENT Strategy
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-856x.2011.00489.x
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发表时间：
2013-08-01
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1.8
通讯作者：
Heath-Kelly, Charlotte
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作者：
Heath-Kelly, Charlotte
这篇文章质疑的激进化的话语的生产，支持努力治理恐怖主义'先发制人通过英国的预防战略。英国反恐目前依赖于激进化的发明“和有关过渡到恐怖主义的相关知识”，以进行可疑社区的治理。文章认为，这些概念使恐怖主义可知和治理通过风险的概念。激进化的知识提供了一个反事实的恐怖主义，使政府能够干预其假定的生产。它使未来可操作。然而，虽然激进化的部署功能使恐怖主义先发制人地治理和可知，它也使预防不稳定，同时提出脆弱性指标“激进化作为对更广泛的集体的威胁，这些行为被框定为既有风险”和“风险”，既脆弱又危险。这种不稳定性说明了学术界和决策界通过激进化知识治理恐怖主义的激进化话语的特设生产。本文分析了激进化话语的产生，以探讨其作为英国反恐风险治理形式的表现。
This article interrogates the production of the radicalisation' discourse which underpins efforts to govern terrorism' pre-emptively through the UK's PREVENT strategy. British counter-terrorism currently relies upon the invention of radicalisation' and related knowledge about transitions to terrorism' to undertake governance of communities rendered suspicious. The article argues that such conceptions make terrorism knowable and governable through conceptions of risk. Radicalisation knowledge provides a counterfactual to terrorismenabling governmental intervention in its supposed production. It makes the future actionable. However, while the deployment of radicalisation' functions to make terrorism pre-emptively governable and knowable, it also renders PREVENT unstable by simultaneously presenting vulnerability indicators' for radicalisation as threats to the wider collectivethese conducts are framed as both at risk' and risky', both vulnerable and dangerous. This instability speaks to ad hoc production of the radicalisation discourse by scholarly and policy-making communities for the governance of terrorism through radicalisation knowledge. This article analyses the production of the radicalisation discourse to explore its performance as a form of risk governance within British counter-terrorism.