Anti-Terrorism, Citizenship and Security in the UK:

Final Conference Programme

Introduction

Recent years, and recent fears, have seen a concerted series of efforts to counter the perceived threat of terrorist violence within the UK and beyond. In post-9/11 Britain, the passage of controversial new antiterrorism legislation, the formulation of a new CONTEST strategy and its re-release in 2009, and associated policy developments in areas such as community-led policing all raise profound political, legal, and normative questions. In this workshop we aim to explore these and related issues to help conceptualise these developments, their import and impacts. To do so, we have invited scholars from a range of disciplines across the social sciences and humanities. The workshop’s remit is both broad and open although questions on which we may touch in the two days include:

Issues of continuity and change in anti-terrorism policy and their significance

Discourses and ideologies of anti-terrorism policy

The differential impacts of anti-terrorism policy on individuals, communities and demographics

The consequences of anti-terrorism policy for citizenship and citizens

Theorising anti-terrorism policy: risk-management, governmentality, biopolitics and beyond

Anti-terrorism policy and security studies

Anti-terrorism policy and the modern state

British anti-terrorism policy in comparative context

The terrorism/migration nexus as it emerges in anti-terrorism policy

Methodological issues relating to anti-terrorism policy

Thursday 15 July

1.00- 1.15: Welcome and Introductions

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1.15-2.00: Lee Jarvis and Michael Lister: Anti-Terrorism and/as (In)Security

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2.00-3.30: Claudia Aradau: Governing the unknown: counter-terrorism and the politics of knowledge

Stuart MacDonald: The Viability, Necessity and Preventative Rationale of Control Orders

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3.30-3.50: Coffee

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3.50-5.20: Ben O’Loughlin: Shifting Securities: Visibility and Unease

Anthony Richards: A Conceptual Overview of 'Extremisms' and the meaning of 'Counter-Terrorism'

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Friday 16 July

9.30-11.00: Andrew Neal: The problematic practice of legislating against terrorism

Steve Hewitt: The Informer Catch-22: The Counter-Terrorism Emphasis on Human Intelligence Collection and its Implications for Anti-Terrorism in the United Kingdom and the United States

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11.00-11.15: Coffee

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11.15-12.45: Alex Braithwaite: On a Quantitative Approach to Evaluating Anti-terrorism

Vivien Lowndes and Lawrence Pratchett: Analysing community-level interventions to preventing violent extremism

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12.45-1.30: Lunch

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1.30 - 3.00: Edward Mogire: Is there a link between asylum migration and terrorism in the UK?

Basia Spalek: Multiculturalism, Security and ‘Extreme Identities’

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3.00-3.15: Coffee

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3.15-4.45: Nathan Roger: Image Warfare: A new challenge to Anti-Terrorism in the UK

Mark Lacy: Urban Geopolitics, Terminal Citizens and the Consumption of Protection

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4.45-5.00: Concluding comments