CTS and Right-Wing Terrorism and Counterterrorism

Alice Martini is Lecturer in International Relations at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. Her research focuses on counter-terrorism and prevention of extremism, specifically at a global level and as implemented by the United Nations. More in general, her research examines and deconstructs global discourses on security, (counter)terrorism and (counter)extremism, looking into the resulting practices of power and international hegemonies. She is the author of The UN and Counterterrorism. Global Hegemonies, Power and Identities (2021) and co-editor of, among others, Encountering Extremism (2020).Raquel da Silva is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the School of Economics, University of Coimbra and Integrated Researcher at CEI-Iscte. She is the author of Narratives of Political Violence: Life Stories of Former Militants (2019). Her research has been funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, the British Academy, and the European Union, among others.

• Introduction—CTS and Right-wing terrorism and counterterrorism: Volume I, The politics of labelling political violence 1. Critical terrorism studies and the far-right: beyond problems and solutions? 2. Meaning and context in analysing extremism: the banalisation of the far-right in Spanish public controversies 3. Let’s not put a label on it: right-wing terrorism in the news 4. “Is this terrorism?” The Italian media and the Macerata shooting 5. Press coverage of lone-actor terrorism in the UK and Denmark: shaping the reactions of the public, affected communities and copycat attackers 6. “Terrorism”, “democracy” and the Spanish 1978 “constitution”: transitional concepts, post-transitional metaphors 7. Erasing historical violence from the study of violent extremism: memorialization of white supremacy at Stone Mountain, United States 8. Feral fascists and deep green guerrillas: infrastructural attack and accelerationist terror 9. Countering far-right threat through Britishness: the Prevent duty in further education 10. Better researchers, better people? The dangers of empathetic research on the extreme right