1st Edition

Terrorism and the Politics of Response

230 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

This inter-disciplinary edited volume critically examines the dynamics of the War on Terror, focusing on the theme of the politics of response. The book explores both how responses to terrorism - by politicians, authorities and the media - legitimise particular forms of sovereign politics, and how terrorism can be understood as a response to global inequalities, colonial and imperial legacies,... Read more

Foreword Marie Fatayi-Williams  Introduction: London in a Time of Terror Angharad Closs Stephens and Nick Vaughan-Williams  Part I Cartographies of Response  1. Missing Persons: London, July 2005 Jenny Edkins  2. Security, Multiculturalism, and the Cosmopolis Vivienne Jabri  3. 7 Million Londoners; 1 London: National and Urban Ideas of Community Angharad Closs Stephens  Part II War on Terror/War on Response  4. Foreign’ Terror? Resisting/Responding to the London Bombings Dan Bulley  5. The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes: New Border Politics? Nick Vaughan-Williams  6. Terror Time in Toronto: A Response to the Response to the Arrests of the Toronto 17 Patricia Molloy  7. Response Before the Event: On Forgetting the War on Terror Louise Amoore  Part III Possibilities of Response?  8. Cosmpolitanism vs. Terrorism? Discourses of Ethical Possibility Before, and After 7/7 James Brassett  9. Finding meaning in meaningless times: emotional responses to terror threats in London? Chris Rumford  10. The Ontopolitics of Response: Difference, Alterity and the Face Madeleine Fagan  11. July 2, July 7 and Metaphysics Costas Douzinas 

Biography

Angharad Closs Stephens is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Durham, UK, and Co-Convenor of the British International Studies Association (BISA) Post-Structural Politics Working Group.

Nick Vaughan-Williams is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Exeter, UK, and Co-Convenor of the British International Studies Association (BISA) Post-Structural Politics Working Group.