Radicalisation, Counter-Radicalisation, and Pre, Jarvis, Whiting, Macdonald+-

Radicalisation, Counter-Radicalisation, and PreventA Vernacular Approach\nAuthor(s): Lee Jarvis, Andrew Whiting, Stuart Macdonald\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Manchester University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Manchester University Press\nISBN-13: 9781526172730, 978-1526172730\nSynopsis\nThis book offers the first sustained investigation into non-elite understandings of radicalisation and counter-radicalisation policy. Drawing on original focus group research with students from universities across England and Wales, the book explores how ordinary citizens understand radicalisation, how they make sense of counter-radicalisation initiatives like the UK Prevent Strategy, and how they evaluate its functioning and effects across society. Radicalisation, counter-radicalisation and Prevent demonstrates that these non-elite insights often contradict and diverge from traditional (elite) security knowledge and thus shed new light on wider questions around the politics of security. This has.