Where is Palestine in Critical Terrorism Studies? A roundtable conversation
Where is Palestine in Critical Terrorism Studies? A roundtable conversation
Layla Aitlhadj Alice Finden Sophie Haspeslagh Amna Kaleem Rabea M. Khan Akram Salhab C. Heike Schotten Somdeep Sen Lisa Stampnitzky a Prevent Watch, London, UKb School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University, Durham, UKc Department of War Studies, King’s College London, London, UKd Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UKe Department of International Relations and Politics, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UKf School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London, London, UKg Department of Political Science, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USAh International Development Studies, Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmarki Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Sheffield, Shieffield, UKLayla Aitlhadj is the Director and Senior Caseworker at Prevent Watch, a community-led initiative which has supported individuals affected by the Prevent programme in over 600 cases. Layla has led this support, litigation and advocacy work. She has published extensively on the British government’s counter-extremism policy Prevent Duty, including the People’s Review of Prevent, an alternative to the widely boycotted official review of the policy.Alice Finden is an Assistant Professor of International Politics at Durham University. Her work focuses on colonial patterns of counterterrorism and forms of everyday violence. She is the co-editor of Methodologies in Critical Terrorism Studies: Gaps and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. She is one of the co-convenors of the BISA Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group.Sophie Haspeslagh is a lecturer in International Relations in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. She focuses on the impact of counterterrorism on conflict resolution and the transition of armed actors away from violence. She is the author of Proscribing Peace: How listing armed groups as terrorists hurts negotiations (Manchester University Press 2021).Amna Kaleem is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Department of Politics and IR, University of Sheffield. Her work focuses on the securitisation of citizenship and the everyday impacts of counter-terrorism policies on communities. She is one of the co-convenors of the BISA Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group.Rabea M. Khan is a lecturer in International Relations at Liverpool John Moores University. Her research interests include Critical Terrorism Studies, Critical Religion, Post- and Decolonial Theory as well as Gender and Race. She is one of the co-convenors of the BISA Critical Studies on Terrorism working group.Akram Salhab is a Palestinian organiser, researcher and PhD candidate at Queen Mary University of London focusing on internationalism, solidarity, popular organising and Palestinian anticolonial thought and practice.C. Heike Schotten is Professor of Political Science and Affiliated Faculty in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is a member of the organising collective of USACBI, the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, and the founding collective of the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism.Somdeep Sen is Associate Professor at the Department of Social Sciences and Business at Roskilde University in Denmark. He is the author of Decolonizing Palestine: Hamas between the anticolonial and the postcolonial (Cornell University Press 2020). His research focuses on race and racism in international relations, settler colonialism, urban politics, postcolonialism and decolonisation.Lisa Stampnitzky is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Sheffield. She is author of Disciplining Terror: How Experts Invented “Terrorism” and articles in journals including Security Dialogue and Theory and Society. Her second book project, How Torture Became Speakable, aims to explain how and why the U.S. turned from an epistemic politics of plausible deniability to one of strategic acknowledgement in the post-9/11 war on terror.