Calibrating violences in critical terrorism studies
This chapter discusses the ways in which Critical Terrorism Studies (CTS) wields, and contains, violences, from the usages of the word “terrorism” to the ways in which certain ideas about killability, grievability and group membership manifest in CTS work. Rather than singling out any approach to CT...
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| Medienart: | Druck Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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2024
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Methodologies in critical terrorism studies
Jahr: 2024, Seiten: 15-28 |
| Verfügbarkeit prüfen: | HBZ Gateway |
| Zusammenfassung: | This chapter discusses the ways in which Critical Terrorism Studies (CTS) wields, and contains, violences, from the usages of the word “terrorism” to the ways in which certain ideas about killability, grievability and group membership manifest in CTS work. Rather than singling out any approach to CTS, this chapter follows several scholars’ suggestion that there is no such thing as non-violent research. As such, it asks where the violences of CTS are directed, at whom, and who are to hold themselves responsible for it, as a reflection on the current constitution of the field. Using illustrative examples of the use of critique in CTS work, this chapter suggests that a (modest) approach which recognises the inevitable failure of critique might (perhaps ironically) provide a way forward for a CTS that can justify it in its own terms. This argument proceeds by looking in three directions: at epistemic violences, at “real world”-produced violences and at the violences of reflexivity reflexively |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 25-28 |
| ISBN: | 9781032469591 |
