Useful journal articles for advocates against counter-extremism and the UK Prevent strategy.
CategoriesCommunity Resources Journal Articles Latest NewsThe journal Critical Studies on Terrorism has published a paper including the subject of how Prevent targets activity related to Palestine and Palestinians. Prevent Watch contributed expertise and cases.
CategoriesCommunity Resources Journal ArticlesThrough an approach of embodying the inquiry, this journal article investigates the scope, recommendations, and forensic investigation of the Manchester Arena Inquiry, and the way it places further responsibility for security on civil society, while being divorced from actual experiences of local spaces.
CategoriesJournal Articles Health ResourcesThe “psychologisation of counter-extremism” is happening apace; this 2020 journal article argues that this is to evade the charge of racism in managing Muslim political agency.
CategoriesJournal ArticlesIs radicalization inherently conducive to terrorism? This paper addresses this fault-line within discourses on radicalization by analyzing the political awakening and mobilization of British Muslims operating in environments targeted by violent-extremists. The results show that despite undergoing the “root causes” and “triggers” associated with radicalization, and even having direct contact with violent-extremists, research participants still rejected terrorism. This paper analyzes why participants’ radicalism promoted resilience to political violence rather than propel them toward it. It challenges the selection bias within terrorism and radicalization studies which constrain our ability to understand this phenomenon by focusing on the rare cases of people who support terrorism while ignoring its more common trajectories of non-terror related activism (or apathy). In correcting this bias, this paper proposes a more holistic definition of radicalization grounded in the lived realities of people undergoing that process and concludes with a discussion on what the findings mean for the […]
This short journal article by Dr. Khadijah Elshayyal considers the impact of the statutory promotion of ‘fundamental British values’ through Prevent on Muslims in the UK.
CategoriesJournal ArticlesThe Birmingham Trojan Horse affair – a supposed plot to Islamicise schools – which hit the headlines in March 2014 has been the main impetus for changes to the Government’s Prevent strategy. The affair was viewed as deriving from a failure of integration of some within Britain’s Muslim communities and their embrace of values inimical to democracy, the rule of law and tolerance toward other religions. New guidance on fundamental British values (democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and religious tolerance) was put forward to prepare pupils for life in modern Britain. Yet Ofsted reports prior to 2014 had found no evidence of anything untoward in the schools in question and had declared the pupils to be well-prepared. Additionally, professional misconduct cases against teachers allegedly involved in the plot collapsed because of improprieties in the pursuit of the prosecution case. Yet the narrative of a threat to integration and […]
CategoriesEducation Resources Journal ArticlesDrawing from interviews with British Muslims living in Leeds or Bradford, Dr Abbas explores how the co-option of Muslim community members to Prevent fractures relations within Muslim communities so that “the terrors of counter-terrorism” are reproduced internally.
CategoriesJournal ArticlesThe rise of the Preventive State assumes security as a core function; this journal article considers the drivers, multiple manifestations, and consequences of preventive policies for criminal justice.
CategoriesJournal Articles Health ResourcesPost 9/11 Islamophobia and the pathologisation of black people should be tackled as part of the Mental Health Act review, argue former psychiatrist Suman Fernando and researcher Tarek Younis.
CategoriesJournal Articles Community ResourcesPrevent is part of a wider surveillance strategy of Muslim civic agency, and this journal article was one of the first to explore this as a colonialist approach.
