Counterterrorism and Colonialism - Everyday Violence in Britain and Egypt

This book uses feminist and postcolonial approaches to archival research and interviews to interrogate the persistence of colonial logics in contemporary counter terrorism practice, exposing how forms of state violence are normalised and legitimised.

List of contents

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Colonial Rule of Law and the Everyday
Part I Colonial Logics and Hierarchical Governance
1. Colonial Anxiety, 'Rough Justice', and the Production of 'Extremism'
2. Legal 'Fact' and Literary 'Fiction': Narrating the 'Collective Threat' of the Countryside through Dinshaway
3. Stretching Welfarism to Colonial Spaces: Sex, Hygiene and Feminism
Part II Postcolonial Patterns of Governance
4. Ambiguous Governance and an Abundance of Rules in Postcolonial Egypt
5. Pre-criminal Governance and Hierarchies of Acceptance in Postcolonial Britain
Conclusion: Continuities of Violence and a Feminist Praxis of Hope

About the author

Alice Finden is Assistant Professor of International Politics at Durham University. She has published with the Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Critical Studies on Terrorism, Feminist Review and the Australian Feminist Law Journal. She is a co-editor of Methodologies in Critical Terrorism Studies: Gaps and Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Routledge 2024).

Summary

This book uses feminist and postcolonial approaches to archival research and interviews to interrogate the persistence of colonial logics in contemporary counter terrorism practice, exposing how forms of state violence are normalised and legitimised.

Product details

• Authors: Alice Finden, Alice (Durham University Finden
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.03.2025
• EAN: 9781032489995
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3248999-5
• No. of pages: 194
• Series: Interventions
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace, Warfare & defence, Terrorism, armed struggle, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Revolutionary groups & movements, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Warfare and defence, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Peace studies & conflict resolution, Demonstrations & protest movements, Revolutionary groups and movements, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions, Colonialism;Terrorism;British;Egypt;Violence;Feminism