ERC Starting Grant · 2025
Terrorism, race and embodied security: Unpacking the matrix of contemporary counterterrorism
Practices and policies of counterterrorism (CT) have been criticised for killing innocent civilians, challenging the rule of law, infringing on civil liberties and silencing political dissent. As the “War on Terror” intensifies in the Middle East, scholarly scrutiny of the broader impacts of CT has become more pressing than ever. However, scholarship on CT remains inchoate. It struggles to provide measurable evidence of how CT instruments (i.e., laws and policies) operate in practice (gap 1), fails to demonstrate how power dynamics permeate CT instruments and reproduce social hierarchies (gap 2) and lacks fundamental insights into how CT impacts lives and societies (gap 3). TRACES, a…
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