TY  - BOOK
AU  - Croft,Stuart
TI  - Securitizing Islam: identity and the search for security 
SN  - 9781107020467
AV  - HV6433.G7 C76 2012
U1  - 363.3251 Cro 2012 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Terrorism
KW  - Prevention
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Islam
KW  - Muslims
KW  - Islamic fundamentalism
KW  - Internal security
KW  - National security
KW  - September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
KW  - Influence
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Public opinion
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-270) and index; Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. Ontological security and Britishness; 2. A post-Copenhagen securitization theory; 3. 'Two World Wars and one World Cup': constructing contemporary Britishness; 4. 'New Britishness' and the 'new terrorism'; 5. The construction of ontological insecurity; Conclusion
N2  - "Securitizing Islam examines the impact of 9/11 on the lives and perceptions of individuals, focusing on the ways in which identities in Britain have been affected in relation to Islam. 'Securitization' describes the processes by which a particular group or issue comes to be seen as a threat, and thus subject to the perceptions and actions which go with national security. Croft applies this idea to the way in which the attitudes of individuals to their security and to Islam and Muslims have been transformed, affecting the everyday lives of both Muslims and non-Muslims. He argues that Muslims have come to be seen as the 'Other', outside the contemporary conception of Britishness. Reworking securitisation theory and drawing in the sociology of ontological security studies, Securitizing Islam produces a theoretically innovative framework for understanding a contemporary phenomenon that affects the everyday lives of millions"--
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