Community, Citizenship and the 'War on Terror'

PAT NOXOLO is Lecturer in Human Geography in the Department of Geography at Loughborough University, UK. Her research interests surround the nexus between security, identity and postcoloniality.JEF HUYSMANS is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) at the Open University, UK. His research centres on the political significance of security practice in Western societies, the securitization of immigration, asylum and refugees, and the politics of fear and exception.

• Introduction PART I: COMMUNITY COHESION Governing the Social and the Problem of the 'Stranger'; G.Hughes (In)security and Community Relations: Vulnerability and the Protests at the Holy Cross Girls Primary School in Belfast; C.Gilligan Love Thy Neighbour: Change and Insecurity in Neighbourly Relations; A.Buonfino PART II: MEDIATED COMMUNITIES Terrorist Threat, Freedom, and Politics in Europe; A.Tsoukala Precarious Citizenship: Multiculturalism, Media and Social Insecurity; M.Gillespie & B.O'Loughlin An 'Ordinary' Couple. Samantha Lewthwaite, Jermaine Lindsay, and the Securitization of Community; P.Noxolo PART III: CITIZENSHIP, IMMIGRATION AND ASYLUM LAW Mobility and Identity: India, the United States, and Cross-border Flows in a Time of Terrorism; K.Sasikumar Unease About Strangers: Leveraging Anxiety as the Basis for Policy; D.Flynn How to do Things With Security Post-9/11; T.Kostakopoulous Conclusion

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