Books on subjects related to counter-extremism policy and thought, as recommended by Prevent Watch.
CategoriesBooks Education ResourcesAs part of discussions about academic freedom in the UK, John Holmwood asks why the harms of the UK’s counter-extremism strategy Prevent have not featured in relation to concerns about academic freedom, and why’s it’s important they should.
CategoriesBooks Health ResourcesEpidemic Empire will be of interest for post-colonial studies as a background to counter-extremism, and for those concerned with the presence of Prevent in healthcare.
CategoriesBooksKawtar Najib’s 2021 book reveals the multi-scalar nature of Islamophobia in Paris and London. Najib also questions the whiteness of the discipline of geography, which impacts studies of this kind.
CategoriesBooksThe Emergence of ‘Extremism’: Exposing the Violent Discourse and Language of ‘Radicalisation’ is informed by Rob Faure Walker’s experience with Prevent while teaching in a Muslim community.
CategoriesBooks Education Resources Prevent Duty in the ArtsA new publication that questions the assumption that there are no alternatives to Prevent, and which builds upon the original There are No Alternatives exhibition (2019).
CategoriesBooksTerror and the Dynamism of Islamophobia in 21st Century Britain is a 700-page treatise on anti-Muslim sentiment from within post-colonial studies and within wider racial politics.
CategoriesBooks Education ResourcesThis book authored by Alison Scott-Baumann and Simon Perfect combines empirical research and philosophical analysis to explore the recommendations of the Joint Committee on Human Rights, related to the impact of counter-terrorism on freedom of speech at universities.
CategoriesBooks Education ResourcesUsing the largest data set collected in the UK at the time (2015–18), Islam on Campus explores how Islam is represented, perceived and lived in UK higher education.
CategoriesBooks Education ResourcesProfessor Pat Thomson argues for an urgent review of current education practices, leading to a revitalised education system that has the public good at its heart.
CategoriesBooks Community ResourcesThis chapter ‘The demography of ethnic minorities in Britain’ was used as a reference in the People’s Review of Prevent to disprove the first argument used for Prevent: “social cohesion”.