Counterterrorism and Colonialism

This book uses feminist and postcolonial approaches to archival research and interviews to interrogate the persistence of colonial logics in contemporary counter terrorism practice, exposing how forms of state violence are normalised and legitimised.

Alice Finden is Assistant Professor of International Politics at Durham University. She has published with the Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Critical Studies on Terrorism, Feminist Review and the Australian Feminist Law Journal. She is a co-editor of Methodologies in Critical Terrorism Studies: Gaps and Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Routledge 2024).

List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: The Colonial Rule of Law and the Everyday Part I Colonial Logics and Hierarchical Governance 1. Colonial Anxiety, 'Rough Justice', and the Production of 'Extremism' 2. Legal 'Fact' and Literary 'Fiction': Narrating the 'Collective Threat' of the Countryside through Dinshaway 3. Stretching Welfarism to Colonial Spaces: Sex, Hygiene and Feminism Part II Postcolonial Patterns of Governance 4. Ambiguous Governance and an Abundance of Rules in Postcolonial Egypt 5. Pre-criminal Governance and Hierarchies of Acceptance in Postcolonial Britain Conclusion: Continuities of Violence and a Feminist Praxis of Hope