TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - 'As a woman…'; 'As a Muslim…': subjects, positions and counter-terrorism powers in the United Kingdom
JO  - Critical social policy
A1  - Jarvis, Lee
A1  - Lister, Michael
SP  - 245
EP  - 267
VL  - 37
IS  - 2
N2  - This article presents findings from original focus group research on the importance of identity claims within public understandings of counter-terrorism across the UK. Following a review of existing literature on the terrorism/counter-terrorism/identity nexus, the article introduces four prominent subject positions inhabited within public articulations of counter-terrorism powers: the 'Muslim', the 'target', the 'woman' and the 'unaffected'. Positions such as these, we argue, both enable and inhibit particular normative, political and anecdotal claims about counter-terrorism frameworks and their impact upon the body politic. This, we suggest, is demonstrative of the co-constitutive role between counter-terrorism and identity claims. Thus, on the one hand, counter-terrorism initiatives work to position individuals socially, politically and culturally: (re)producing various religious, ethnic and other identities. Yet, at the same time, specific subject positions are integral to the articulation of people's attitudes toward developments in counter-terrorism. The article concludes by thinking through some of the implications of this, including for resistance toward securitising moves and for citizenship more generally.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0261-0183
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0261018316684506
ID  - ref1
ER  -