Theorising the 'suspect community': counterterrorism, security practices and the public imagination

Autor:	Marie Breen-Smyth
Rok vydání:	2013
Předmět:	Islamophobia media_common.quotation_subject Alienation Racism language.human_language Irish Law Political Science and International Relations Terrorism language Product (category theory) Sociology Suspect The Imaginary media_common
Zdroj:	Critical Studies on Terrorism. 7:223-240
ISSN:	1753-9161 1753-9153
DOI:	10.1080/17539153.2013.867714
Popis:	This article considers Hillyard’s first application of the term “suspect community” to the Irish in Britain in the era of the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) and its more recent application to Muslims in the global war on terror. A review of the application of the term “suspect community” and research in the field points to the problems associated with constructing an entire population and to problems of misidentification. Ethnographic and other evidence illustrate the stigmatisation, alienation and violence that results from its deployment. Given these difficulties and Greer’s objections to the use of the term “suspect community”, a redefinition of the concept of “suspect community” is proposed, borrowing from Anderson’s concept of the imagined community. The “suspect community” is not merely the product of legal and security apparatuses, but the product of a larger cultural apparatus or “imaginary”. It is redefined as “a community created in and by the securitised imagination and enacted in a processe...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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