1st Edition
Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism in a Postcolonial Context Security, Democracy, and Religion in Tunisia
Introduction Chapter 1: Security in Postcolonial Settings: The Transnational Management of “Dangerous” Populations Chapter 2: Reproducing Colonial Logics: International Actors and the Assessment of Transnational Threats Chapter 3: Between International and National Discourses: Managing Islam in Postcolonial Tunisia Chapter 4: International Development and Violent Extremism: Multiple Actors in Local Programmes Chapter 5: “Vernacular” Security, Religion and Local Imams Conclusions: International P/CVE Programmes and the Continuation of Colonial Policing
Biography
Fabrizio Leonardo Cuccu is Alumni Research Fellow at the Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM), University of Tunis, Tunisia, and Research Assistant in the School of Law and Government, Dublin City University, Ireland. His research focuses on security, development, and migration policies in postcolonial settings. His work has been published in the Cambridge Review of International Affairs, L’Année du Maghreb and Surveillance & Society.
"This important new book traces the development of P/CVE measures in Tunisia, highlighting the agency of local actors and situating counter-radicalisation initiatives in wider social and political contexts. With an enviable combination of historical nuance, original empirical findings, and cutting-edge conceptual insight, Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism in a Postcolonial Context will be essential reading to anyone interested in the complex contemporary intersections between security, religion, and politics. It deserves the widest possible audience."
Lee Jarvis, Professor of Security and Society, Adelaide University, Australia
"In Preventing and Countering Extremism in a Postcolonial Context, Fabrizio Leonardo Cuccu delivers the first significant and book-length study of how counter-extremism moves from International Organisations to the postcolonial space. The text explores the unique refraction of P/CVE norms through the power structures of Tunisian politics and society, as well as the role played by Imams in highlighting and silencing parts of the P/CVE canon for the local environment. Cuccu's book teaches us that security is never simple; it is refracted through layers of history as well as geography, directed according to the interests of those who wield power, in any context."
Charlotte Heath-Kelly, Professor of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
