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Anti-Terrorism, Citizenship and Security in the UK

Grant reference: RES-000-22-3765

Journal article details

Title Stakeholder security : the new western way of counter-terrorism?

Description This article explores the ways in which Western states have adapted their counter-terrorism strategies to meet the demands of a post-9/11 era. Focusing on the USA and UK as illustrative case studies, this article charts the emergence of a new, complex topography of security measures aimed at confronting the threat of unconventional violence from above and below. Of particular interest is the construction of a raft of initiatives heavily reliant on the continued participation of citizens for their functioning; a reliance persistently justified by claims to uncertainty, even ignorance, among political elites. To better understand these initiatives and their implications, this article introduces the concept of stakeholder security to refer to the conscription of ordinary individuals into the state’s security apparatuses; a conscription that positions citizens precariously as simultaneously technologies, subjects and objects of security. The article concludes with a first attempt to trace some of the political and normative issues raised by this new policy framework.

Url http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13569771003783943

Url Description Abstract

Language English

Primary contributor

Author Lee Jarvis

Additional contributors

Author Michael Lister

Keywords

terrorism; counter-terrorism; security; stakeholders; citizenship; risk

Additional details

Volume number 16

Issue number 2

Is this item peer reviewed (refereed)? Yes

ISSN 1356-9775

Publisher Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

Date of publication 01 January 2010

Number of pages 16

Page reference 173-188

Place of publication Abingdon

Is this item a pre-print or post-print? Postprint

Title of journal Contemporary politics

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Citation Style:

Harvard

Jarvis, Lee and Lister, Michael (2010) Stakeholder security : the new western way of counter-terrorism?. Contemporary politics. 16 (2), pp. 173-188 Abingdon: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.

Vancouver

Jarvis Lee and Lister Michael. Stakeholder security : the new western way of counter-terrorism?. Contemporary politics 2010; 16 (2): 173-188.