Neoliberalism and Terror

Charlotte Heath-Kelly holds concurrent postdoctoral fellowships at the Institute of Advanced Study and the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. She is the author of Politics of Violence: Militancy, International Politics, Killing in the Name (Routledge, 2013), and the co-editor of Counter-Radicalisation: Critical Perspectives (Routledge, 2015). Her current research will be published in 2016 as Death and Security (Manchester UP).Christopher Baker-Beall is a Lecturer in International Relations at Nottingham Trent University, UK. He is the (co-)author or editor of two books on the politics of terrorism, counter-terrorism, and security, including Counter-Radicalisation: Critical Perspectives (Routledge, 2015) and The European Union’s ‘Fight against Terrorism’: Discourse, Policies, Identity (Manchester UP).Lee Jarvis is Senior Lecturer in International Security at the University of East Anglia. He is (co-) author or editor of eight books on the politics of terrorism, counter-terrorism and security including Anti-terrorism, Citizenship and Security (Manchester UP, 2015) and Critical Perspectives on Counter-terrorism (Routledge, 2014).

• Introduction: neoliberalism and/as terror 1. The Universal Adversary will attack: pigs, pirates, zombies, Satan and the class war 2. The epistemological crisis of counterterrorism 3. Class war-on-terror: counterterrorism, accumulation, crisis 4. Against state terror: lessons on memory, counterterrorism and resistance from the Global South 5. Conjuring up the next attack: the future-orientedness of terror and the counterterrorist imagination 6. De-radicalisation interventions as technologies of the self: a Foucauldian analysis 7. Performativity and the project: enacting urban transport security in Europe 8. Going fifth freedom: fighting the War on Terror in the Splinter Cell: Blacklist video game 9. Why me? An autoethnographic account of the bizarre logic of counterterrorism 10. PREVENT: creating "radicals" to strengthen anti-Muslim narratives

"Neoliberalism and Terror will be of great interest to readers within the fields of International Relations, Security Studies, and Terrorism Studies. As a provocative and compelling analysis of the relations between (neoliberal) economics and counterterrorism, it will probably remain outside the mainstream circuits of the analysis of contemporary terrorism, focused as they are in precisely those conceptions of the universal adversary and the external threat. The attempt to challenge these assumptions and the consequent responses to them should attract well-deserved attention." - Mabel González Bustelo, Global Policy Journal