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Title: | The Racialized Surveillant Assemblage: Islam and the fear of Terrorism |
Authors: | Sharma, S Nijjar, J |
Keywords: | assemblages;Islam;racialization;racism;radicalisation;surveillance;terrorism |
Issue Date: | 12-Jan-2018 |
Publisher: | Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group) |
Citation: | Sharma, S. and Nijjar, J. (2018) 'The Racialized Surveillant Assemblage: Islam and the fear of Terrorism', Popular Communication, 16 (1), pp. 72 - 85. doi: 10.1080/15405702.2017.1412441. |
Abstract: | Increasingly intense, multifaceted, and integrated forms of surveillance are a central feature of Western national security attempts to counter the violence of “Islamic terrorism.” However, there has been a lack of research examining contemporary regimes of surveillance as profoundly racialized. This study examines how counterterrorism efforts are underpinned by ill-conceived accounts of radicalization that preemptively construct Muslim migrants as a threat to national security, thereby justifying practices of mass surveillance that further propagate racist discourses of uncertainty and risk. We advance an analysis of a racialized surveillant assemblage, which is generative of mutable, algorithmically determined profiles of the Muslim-as-terrorist. Such a regime of mass surveillance effectively puts all Muslims under suspicion. We highlight that, paradoxically, mass data-mining operations stifle, rather than aid, the identification of actual terrorist threats. This conditions a paranoid surveillant racism, through which Muslim populations become modulated as an unknowable threat of death and destruction. |
URI: | https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/15402 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/15405702.2017.1412441 |
ISSN: | 1540-5702 |
Appears in Collections: | Dept of Social and Political Sciences Research Papers |
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