Counter-Radicalisation: Critical Perspectives (Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies)

Hardcover, xiv + 250 pages, NOT ex-library. Book is clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Boards show faint shelfwear, non-sticky traces of a removed sticker on the back, a touch of scuffing. Issued without a dust jacket. -- This book offers a wide-ranging and critical examination of recent counter-radicalisation policies, using case studies from several countries. Counter-radicalisation policies, such as the UK `Prevent' strategy, have been highly controversial and increasingly criticised since their introduction. In this edited volume, voices from disciplines including sociology, political science, criminology and International Relations are brought together to address issues across the global roll-out of counter-radicalisation agendas. In so doing, the book critically interrogates: (i) the connections between counter-radicalisation and other governmental programmes and priorities relating to integration and community cohesion; (ii) the questionable dependence of counter-radicalisation initiatives on discourses and assumptions about race, risk and vulnerability to extremism; and, (iii) the limitations of existing counter-radicalisation machineries for addressing relatively new types of extremism including amongst `right-wing' activists. Through examining these questions, the book draws on a range of contemporary case studies spanning from counter-radicalisation in the UK, Germany and Denmark, through to detailed analyses of specific preventative initiatives in Australia and the United States. Conceptually, the chapters engage with a range of critical approaches, including discourse theory, autoethnography and governmentality. This book will be of much interest to students of radicalisation, critical terrorism studies, counter-terrorism, sociology, security studies and IR in general. -- Contents: Introduction; 1. Radicalisation: The Journey of a Concept / Arun Kundnani 2. Prevent and Community Cohesion in Britain: The Worst of All Possible Worlds? / Paul Thomas 3. How (Not) to Create Ex-Terrorists: Prevent as Ideological Warfare / Phil Edwards 4. Countering Violent Extremism: Social Harmony, Community Resilience and the Potential of Counter-Narratives in the Australian Context / Anne Aly 5. Prevent Abroad: Militant Democracy, Right-Wing Extremism and the Prevention of Islamic Extremism in Berlin / Floris Vermeulen & Julia Berczyk 6. Recognition Masking Response: Preventing Far-Right Extremism and Radicalisation / Michelle Bentley 7. Challenging Far-Right Extremism: The Other Side of the Coin? / Rocio Cifuentes 8. Mapping the Muslim Community: The Politics of Counter-Radicalisation in Britain / Nadya Ali 9. Policed Multiculturalism?: The Impact of Counter-Terrorism and Counter-Radicalization and the 'End' of Multiculturalism / Francesco Ragazzi 10. Prevent and the Internet / Lella Nouri & Andrew Whiting 11. Challenging the Separation of Counter-Terrorism and Community Cohesion in Prevent: The Potential Threat of the 'Radicalised' Subject / Thomas Martin 12. Prevent 2011 and Counter-Radicalisation: What is De-Radicalisation? / Mohammed Elshimi 13. Refocusing Danish Counter-Radicalisation Efforts: An Analysis of the (Problematic) Logic and Practice of Individual De-Radicalisation Interventions / Lasse Lindekilde; Index.