文档介绍：Terrorism and the Politics of
Response
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, authori-
ties 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, and the dominant idioms of modern politics.
The investigation is made against the backdrop of the 7 July 2005 bombings
in London and their aftermath, which have gone largely unexamined in the acad-
emic literature to date. The case offers a provocative site for analysing the
diverse logics implicated in the broader context of the War on Terror, for exam-
ining how terrorist events are framed, and how such framings serve to legitimise
particular policies and political practices.
The book will be of much interest to students and researchers of critical
security studies, political geography, political theory, terrorism studies and IR in
general.
Angharad Closs Stephens is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University
of Durham, UK, and Co-Convenor of the British International Studies Associ-
ation (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.
Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies
Series Editors: Richard Jackson, Marie Breen Smyth and Jeroen
Gunning
University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK
This book series will publish rigorous and innovative studies on all aspects of
terrorism, counter-terrorism and state terror. It seeks to advance a new genera-
tion of thinking on traditional subjects, investigate topics frequently overlooked
in orthodox accounts of terrorism. Books in this series will typically adopt
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