A required reading for anyone concerned about how terrorism became the dominant political discourse of our times. What is the thing itself, who are its true subjects and practitioners, how did it get constituted into the paradigmatic dispositif of current counterterrorism? Re-Defining Terrorism provides unique perspectives on such critical issues. -- Professor Emeritus Joseba Zulaika, Center for Basque Studies, University of Nevada, Reno, USA Dr Rodrigo Jusué has written a unique and intriguing study of the radicalisation paradigm exploring how it has permeated British culture, the media, and enrolled citizens to report others as potential terrorist threats. No longer just a component within terrorism laws, the author shows us how radicalisation affects our daily movements and judgements, through its replacement of previous dispositifs about political violence. As the first book-length study of radicalisation from a Cultural Studies perspective, this book will benefit all students of British Culture, Politics, and Sociology. -- Professor Charlotte Heath-Kelly, Politics and International Studies (PAIS), University of Warwick, Coventry, UK Re-Defining Terrorism delivers an elegant, penetrating and highly illuminating deconstruction of the dominant social imaginaries of terrorism and counterterrorism in our society today. In a trenchant analysis of the contemporary terrorism dispositif, the author expertly uncovers the ways in which the evolving security discourse is profoundly reshaping knowledge, power and subjectivity in our world. Powerfully argued, wide-ranging, knowledgeable and prescient, I cant recommend this book highly enough. -- Professor Richard Jackson, Leading Thinker Chair in Peace Studies at the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand Re-Defining Terrorism argues, persuasively, that the contemporary focus on counter-radicalisation policies and practices has transformed the social imaginaries of political violence. Rodrigo Jusué contributes to a now substantial and established critique of counterterrorism policy and practice that points to the counterproductivity of incursions into human rights and freedom of thought and expression by the wide variety of measures aimed at countering radicalisation. Her critique is relevant not only to scholars of political violence and terror and states responses in the form of counterterrorism, but also to policy makers and those charged with responsibility for the security of our communities. In a world where there are strong popular tendencies towards demonisation of difference, this book is part of a crucial reminder of the dangers of over-reaction in the form of invasive and restrictive measures. -- Professor Marie Breen-Smyth, Senior Fellow, Center for Peace, Democracy and Development, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA
