This book offers an innovative account of Prevent, Britain’s counter-radicalisation strategy, situating it as a novel form of power that has played a central role in the production and the policing of contemporary British identity. Drawing on interviews with those at the heart of Prevent’s development, the book provides readers with an in-depth history and conceptualisation of the policy. The book demonstrates that Prevent is an ambitious new way of thinking about violence that has led to the creation of a
radical new role
for the state: tackling vulnerability to radicalisation. Detailing the history of the policy, and the concepts and practices that have been developed within Prevent, this book critically engages with the assumptions on which they are based and the forms of power they mobilise.
Table of Content
Introduction
1 The (problematic) history of Prevent
2 The ‘separatist’ literature on Prevent (and the way forward)
3 The temporal ambition of Prevent: stopping people becoming terrorists
4 Crossing the temporal gap: vulnerability, extremism and the ordering of identities
5 Governing threatening environments: community cohesion and problem institutions
6 The Channel project: identifying individuals who are vulnerable to radicalisation
7 The identity politics of Prevent
Conclusion
Index
About the author
Thomas Martin is a Lecturer in International Studies at the Open University
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