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Radicalisation, Counter-radicalisation and Prevent: A Vernacular Approach

Lee Jarvis Orcid Logo, Andrew Whiting Orcid Logo, Stuart Macdonald Orcid Logo

Swansea University Author: Stuart Macdonald Orcid Logo

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This book offers the first sustained investigation into non-elite understandings of radicalisation and counter-radicalisation policy. Drawing on original focus group research with students from universities across England and Wales, the book explores how ‘ordinary’ citizens understand radicalisation...

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ISBN: 9781526172730
Published: Manchester Manchester University Press 2024
Online Access: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526172730/
URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa63197
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Abstract: This book offers the first sustained investigation into non-elite understandings of radicalisation and counter-radicalisation policy. Drawing on original focus group research with students from universities across England and Wales, the book explores how ‘ordinary’ citizens understand radicalisation, how they make sense of counter-radicalisation initiatives like the UK Prevent Strategy, and how they evaluate its functioning and effects across society. Radicalisation, Counter-radicalisation and Prevent demonstrates that these non-elite insights often contradict and diverge from traditional (elite) security knowledge and thus shed new light on wider questions around the politics of security. This has vitally important implications not only for counter-radicalisation and counter-terrorism policy but for the very study and practice of security.
Item Description: In Press
Keywords: Radicalisation, Counter-radicalisation, Extremism, Counter-extremism, Prevent Strategy, Counter-terrorism, Terrorism, Higher Education, Vernacular security studies, Focus groups
College: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences