Changing experiences of responsibilisation and contestation within counter-terrorism policies
The British Prevent experience
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6326259 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paul Thomas (0000-0002-1366-3781, University of Huddersfield, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 305-321 |
| Publication date | 2017-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Policy & Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-5736 • E-ISSN: 1470-8442 |
| Publisher | Bristol University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1332/030557317x14943145195580 |
| OpenAlex | W2618167630 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 27 |
| References cited | 17 |
Preventative, ‘soft’ counter-terrorism policies have proved internationally controversial, as criticisms of Britain’s Prevent strategy show. However, there is a danger that change, complexity and contestation within approaches like Prevent are overlooked. This article examines Prevent’s changing focus of ‘responsibilisation’ and, in response, changing experiences of contestation by both the local state and by local Muslim communities, including mediation and ‘enactment’ by organisations and individual professionals. In discussing this, the article argues for a more nuanced analysis of Prevent, around both the ‘state’ and the situated use of agency and policy space. This supports the contention that Prevent is ‘complexly flawed
Agency (philosophy · Counter terrorism · Criminology · Mediation · Political economy · Political science · Public relations · Situated · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Terrorism · Law · Migration, Health and Trauma · Public Administration · Religion, Society, and Development · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
Alienation or Cooperation? British Muslims' Attitudes to and Engagement in Counter-Terrorism and Counter-Extremism
Considering strategies designed to counter radicalisation
Preventing Extremism with Extremists
Understanding Muslims in Britain
“No one wants to end up as the black sheep”
The Prevent Duty in Education
None-the-wiser’? Citizenship education in preventing radicalisation
The enactment of the counter-terrorism “Prevent duty” in British schools and colleges
Fundamental British Values & the Prevent Duty in Scotland
An educational response to the “Prevent duty” in England and Wales
Trust your instincts – act!” PREVENT police officers’ perspectives of counter-radicalisation reporting thresholds
What about hope? A critical analysis of pre-empting childhood radicalisation
Countering far-right threat through Britishness
Secondary school teachers’ and prevent practitioners’ conceptualisations of radicalisation in England and the impact of the prevent duty
The suspect citizen
Understanding the effectiveness and desirability of de-radicalisation
It’s about keeping children safe, not spying’
Constructing the ‘good Muslim girl’
Cohesion, citizenship and coherence
British Educators Preventing Terrorism Through ‘Safeguarding’ the ‘Vulnerable’
Confronting Incel
Enactors of the State
An inclusive and participatory approach to counter-radicalization? Examining the role of Muslim associations in the Swedish policy process
Producing 'internal suspect bodies
The illiberalism of liberalism
Demobilizing or Activating? The Effect of Anti-Muslim Discrimination on Muslims' Counter-Extremism Engagement
Resisting the Prevent Duty-A Typology of Everyday Resistance
Street-Level Bureaucracy
The impact of counter-terrorism measures on Muslim communities
Muslims, Schooling and Security
Terror Crime Prevention with Communities
Social Cohesion and Counter-Terrorism
Policy enactments in the UK secondary school
Agency, social theory and social policy
Youth, terrorism and education
Between Two Stools? The Government's ‘Preventing Violent Extremism’ Agenda
Risk society
Counter-Terrorism and the Counterfactual
Post-Foucauldian governmentality
The Multicultural State We're In
Radicalisation
Governing through Prevent? Regulation and Contested Practice in State-Muslim Engagement
Unwilling Citizens? Muslim Young People and National Identity
| Unique citing works | 27 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,86 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 26 |