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Security, population and governmentality : UK counter-terrorism discourse (2007-2011)

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MacDonald, Malcolm and Hunter, Duncan (2013) Security, population and governmentality : UK counter-terrorism discourse (2007-2011). Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines, Vol.6 (No.2). ISSN 1752-3079.

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Abstract

Over the past decade, governments worldwide have taken initiatives both at a national and supra-national level in order to prevent terrorist attacks from militant groups. This paper analyses a corpus of policy documents which sets out the policy for UK national security. Informed by Foucault’s (2007) theory of governmentality, as well as critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistics, this paper analyses the ways in which the liberal state in late modernity realizes security as discursive practice. A corpus of 110 documents produced by the UK government relating to security in the wake of the 7/7 attacks between 2007 and 2011 was assembled. The paper analyses the discursive constitution of the Foucaultian themes of regulation, knowledge and population, though carrying out a qualitative analysis of relevant key wards, patterns of collocation, as well as features of connotation and semantic prosody.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare
J Political Science > JC Political theory
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Terrorism -- Prevention, Power (Social Sciences) -- Great Britain, Critical discourse analysis, Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984 -- Criticism and interpretation, Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 2007-, National security -- Great Britain
Journal or Publication Title: Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines
Publisher: Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (C A D A A D)
ISSN: 1752-3079
Official Date: November 2013
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November 2013Published
Volume: Vol.6
Number: No.2
Number of Pages: 20
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Open Access (Creative Commons)
Date of first compliant deposit: 12 April 2016
Date of first compliant Open Access: 12 April 2016

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