Radicalization in Belgium and the Netherlands

Critical Perspectives on Violence and Security

Dr. Nadia Fadil, Francesco Ragazzi, Martijn de Koning (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

344 Seiten

2021
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-0-7556-4123-9 (ISBN)

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The concept of ‘radicalization’ is now used to account for all forms of violent and non-violent political Islam. Used widely within the security services and picked up by academia, the term was initially coined by the General Intelligence and Security Service of the Netherlands (AIVD) after the 9/11 and Pentagon attacks, an origin that is rarely recognised.

This book comprises contributions from leading scholars in the field of critical security studies to trace the introduction, adoption and dissemination of ‘radicalization’ as a concept. It is the first book to offer a critical analysis and history of the term as an ‘empty signifier’, that is, a word that might not necessarily refer to something existing in the real world. The diverse contributions consider how the term has circulated since its emergence in the Netherlands and Belgium, its appearance in academia, its existence among the people categorized as ‘radicals’ and its impact on relationships of trust between public officials and their clients. Building on the traditions of critical security studies and critical studies on terrorism, the book reaffirms the importance of a reflective approach to counter-radicalization discourse and policies. It will be essential reading for scholars of security studies, political anthropology, the study of Islam in the west and European studies.

Nadia Fadil is Associate Professor in Anthropology at the Interculturalism, Migration and Minorities Research Centre (IMMRC) at Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven) in Belgium. She has published extensively in academic journals, including HAU, Ethnicities, Identities, Social Anthropology, Ethnic and Racial Studies and the Feminist Review as well as in edited volumes. Francesco Ragazzi is Lecturer in International Relations at Leiden University and Associated Scholar at the Centre D’Etude sur les Conflits, Liberté Security (CCLS). He has published widely in peer-reviewed journals including International Political Sociology, Security Dialogue and Political Geography. He has been consulted as an expert on security by the European Parliament, the Council of Europe and the French Senate. Martijn de Koning teaches at the Department of Islamic Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands. He is also a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. He has published in the Journal of Muslims in Europe, Anthropology Today and Contemporary Islam.

Introduction. Radicalization: Tracing the Trajectory of an “empty signifier” in the Low Lands
Nadia Fadil, Martijn de Koning & Francesco Ragazzi

Part I: The circulations of a contested concept

Radicalization. De geboorte van een ambigu conceptThe origins and limits of a contested concept
Rik Coolsaet

Turning ‘radicalization’ into science. Ambivalent translations into the Dutch(speaking) academic field
Nadia Fadil & Martijn de Koning

Considering internal debates on “radicalism” within the Brussels’ Islamic community
Mieke Groeninck

Part II: De/Radicalization policies on the ground

Foreign fighters on trial. Sentencing risk, 2013-2017
Beatrice de Graaf

Pre-emptive measures against radicalization and local partnerships in Antwerp
Ineke Roex & Floris Vermeulen

Countering Radicalization: Hijacking Trust? Dilemmas of Street-Level Bureaucrats in The Netherlands
Francesco Ragazzi & Lili-Anne de Jongh

(De-)radicalization as a negotiated practice. An ethnographic case study in Flanders
Silke Jaminé & Nadia Fadil

Part III: De/Radicalization and its effects

Routinisation and Mobilisation of Injustice: How to live in a regime of surveillance
Martijn de Koning

Can the ‘Muhajir’ Speak? European Syria Fighters & the Digital Un/Making of Home
Jaafar Alloul

No escape: the force of the security frame in academia and beyond
Annelies Moors

Conclusions

From convert to radical: making critique illegible
Iman Lechkar

The maze of radicalization: justification and professional interests
Didier Bigo

Afterword

Afterword: A De/Radicalised Future
Paul Silverstein

Erscheinungsdatum	29.01.2021
Zusatzinfo	6 b+w integrated
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	481 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	0-7556-4123-X / 075564123X
ISBN-13	978-0-7556-4123-9 / 9780755641239
Zustand	Neuware