GILKS Mark

The security-prejudice nexus: "Islamist" terrorism and the structural logics of Islamophobia in the UK/ Mark Gilks - 2020

This evidence also reveals an empirical link to "Islamist" terrorism, revealing a nexus between security and the social emergence of prejudice. Drawing on critical approaches to security and applying them to the case of the UK in 2017, this article explores this nexus conceptually and empirically. It examines the discourses of various governance institutions (including the media, the political elite, and security professionals) as they respond to "Islamist" terrorist events. It argues that these governance institutions individually and collectively.


TERRORISM
SECURITY -- PREJUDICE
ISLAM