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Sharma, Sanjay and Nijjar, Jasbinder S. (2024) Post-racial politics, pre-emption and in/security. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 27 (2). pp. 275-294. doi:10.1177/13675494231168177 ISSN 1367-5494.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/13675494231168177
Abstract
Militarized policing strategies aiming to identify and nullify risks to national security in Western nations have become central to the biopolitical regulation of racialized populations. While the disproportionate impact of pre-emptive counter-terrorism policing on ‘Muslim’ populations has been highlighted, the post-racial techno-politics of predictive policing as a mode of securitization remain overlooked. This article argues that the ‘war on terror’ is governed by a state of crisis that conditions a pre-emptive biopolitics of containment against (unknown) future threats. We examine how predictive policing is progressively dependent on the computational production of risk to avert impending terror. As such, extant forms of counter-terrorism algorithmic profiling are shown to mobilize post-racial calculative logics that renew racial oppression while appearing race-neutral. These predictive systems and pre-emptive actions, while seeking to securitize the future by identifying and nullifying suspects, evasively remake race as risky, thus rendering security indistinguishable from insecurity. Hence, we assert that state securitization is haunted by a profound sense of racialized dread over terrorism, for it can only resort to containing, rather than resolving, the perceived threat of race.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare J Political Science > JA Political science (General) J Political Science > JC Political theory |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies | ||||||
SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Biopolitics , National security, Terrorism -- Prevention -- Government policy, Surveillance detection | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | European Journal of Cultural Studies | ||||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||
ISSN: | 1367-5494 | ||||||
Official Date: | April 2024 | ||||||
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Volume: | 27 | ||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 275-294 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/13675494231168177 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 7 June 2023 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 9 June 2023 |
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