Critical terrorism studies : a new research agenda

289 Pages·2009·1.52 MB·English

by  Richard Jackson

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Critical Terrorism Studies
In response to the growth of a critical perspective on contemporary issues of
terrorism, this edited volume brings together a number of leading scholars to
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debate the new subfield of ‘critical terrorism studies’.
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In the years since the 9/11 attacks, the studyt of terrorism has undergone a
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major transformation from a minor subfield of security studies into a large stand-
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alone field, and is probably one of the fastest expanding areas of research in the
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Western academic world. However, much of the literature is beset by a number

of problems, limiting its potential for prodfucing rigorous empirical findings and
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genuine theoretical advancement. In response to these weaknesses in the broader

field, a small but increasing number ofy scholars have begun to articulate a crit-
ical perspective on contemporary itssues of terrorism. This volume brings
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together a number of leading scholasrs to debate the need for, and the shape of,
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this exciting new subfield. The first part of the volume examines some of the
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main shortcomings and limitatvions of orthodox terrorism studies, while the
second examines exactly whati ‘critical’ terrorism studies would look like. Con-
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tributors from a variety of methodological and disciplinary perspectives give this
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volume diversity, and it will lay the foundations for, and provoke debate about,

the future research agenda of this new field.
This book will be of much interest to students of critical security studies, ter-
rorism studies and international relations.
Richard Jacksonis Reader in the Department of International Politics, Aberyst-
wyth University, where he is also Senior Researcher at the Centre for the Study
of Radicalisation and Contemporary Political Violence (CSRV). He is the
founding editor of the journal, Critical Studies on Terrorism. Marie Breen
Smythis Director of the Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Contempor-
ary Political Violence at Aberystwyth University. She is a Reader in Inter-
national Politics and co-editor of the journal, Critical Studies on Terrorism.
Jeroen Gunning is Lecturer in International Politics at Aberystwyth University,
Deputy Director of the Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Contemporary
Political Violence and co-editor of the journal, Critical Studies on Terrorism.
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This book series will publish rigorous and innovative studies on all aspects of 1
terrorism, counterterrorism and state terror. It seeks to advance a new generation of 1
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orthodox accounts of terrorism. Books in this seriest will typically adopt approaches 1
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4 The contemporary study of polsitical terrorism 11
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Critical approaches to the study of political terrorism 85 2
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