Overview

This edited volume aims to deepen our understanding of state power through a series of case studies of political violence arising from state 'counter-terrorism' strategies. The book examines how state counter-terrorism strategies are invariably underpinned by terror, in the form of state political violence. It seeks to answer several key questions: To what extent can counter-terror strategies be read as a form of state terror? What are the features of counter-terrorism that render it so easily reducible to state terror? If state terror is a necessary product of state counter-terrorism, what does this mean for how we resist the 'war on terror'? How fundamental is state terror to the maintenance of a neo-liberal social order? The chapters analyse this process in a range of contexts including: Spain; the UK and Northern Ireland; the US and Colombia; the US and Puerto Rico; Israel and Gaza; the US and European powers in the Sahara; Indonesia and Timor-Leste and West Papua; Sri Lanka and Tamil Eelam; the UK and immigrants (especially from 'suspect communities'), political dissidents and asylum seekers. Contributors use the case studies to understand what it means to say that the 'war on terror' is terror, and explore this in a psychological warfare sense (the creation of widespread fears of state violence in order to achieve political, social or military aims), or in a hegemonic sense (to develop a state of fear of sub-state 'terrorists' in order to escalate state political violence). This book will be of great interest to students of critical terrorism studies, political violence, war and conflict studies, sociology, international security and IR.

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Author:   Scott Poynting ,  David Whyte
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.650kg
ISBN:  

9780415607209

ISBN 10:   0415607205
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   17 May 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Counterterrorism as Counterinsurgency in the UK ‘War on Terror’ 2. Shoot-To-Kill Counter-Suicide Terrorism: Anatomy of Undemocratic Policing 3. British Counter-insurgency Practice in Northern Ireland in the 1970s – A Legitimate Response or State Terror? 4. Masters of Terror 5. The Great Game 6. One More Successful War? Tamil Diaspora and Counter-Terrorism after the LTTE 7. ‘No permission to shoot in Gaza is necessary’: Israeli State Terror against Palestinians in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead 8. Untouchable Compradores? Colombian State Narco-Terrorism and the People’s Struggle for National Liberation 9. The Criminalisation of Anti-Colonial Struggle in Puerto Rico 10.‘War on Terror’ and Spanish State Violence Against Basque Political Dissent 11. Indonesian State Terror in Timor-Leste and West Papua 12. Al Qaeda in the West, for the West

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Scott Poynting is Professor in Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan University. He is co-author of, among other books, Bin Laden in the Suburbs: Criminalising the Arab Other (2004) and Kebabs, Kids, Cops and Crime: Youth, Ethnicity and Crime (2000). David Whyte is Reader in Sociology at the University of Liverpool. He is co-author of Safety Crimes (2007), co-editor of Unmasking the Crimes of the Powerful (2003) and author of State, Crime, Power (2009).

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