COUNTERTERRORISM AND COLONIALISM everyday violence in britain and egypt.

This book uses feminist and postcolonial approaches to archival research and interviews to interrogate the persistence of colonial logics in contemporary counterterrorism practice, exposing how forms of state violence are normalised and legitimised. The book investigates the historical development o...

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Main Author Finden, Alice E. (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published [S.l.] : ROUTLEDGE, 2025.
SeriesInterventions (Routledge (Firm))
Subjects
Terrorism > Egypt > Prevention > History > 21st century.
Political violence > Egypt > History > 20th century.
Anti-imperialist movements > Egypt > History > 20th century.
Great Britain > Colonies > Africa > Administration.
Egypt > History > British occupation, 1882-1936.
Egypt > Politics and government > 1882-1952.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781040335710
1040335713
9781003391821
1003391826
9781040335789
1040335780
1032489995
9781032489995
Physical Description1 online resource

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. The colonial rule of law and the everyday
  • Colonial anxiety, 'rough justice', and the production of 'extremism'
  • Legal 'fact' and literary 'fiction' : narrating the 'collective threat' of the countryside through Dinshaway
  • Stretching welfarism to colonial spaces : sex, hygiene and feminism
  • Ambiguous governance and an abundance of rules in postcolonial Egypt
  • Pre-criminal governance and hierarchies of acceptance in postcolonial Britain
  • Conclusion. Continuities of violence and a feminist praxis of Ho.

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