TY  - BOOK
AU  - Croft, Stuart.
TI  - Securitizing Islam: identity and the search for security 
SN  - 9781107020467 (hardback);9781107632868 (paperback)
U1  - 363.325/160941 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cambridge;;New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Terrorism;Terrorism;Terrorism;Islam;Muslims;Islamic fundamentalism;Internal security;National security;September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001;POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General
KW  - Prevention;Government policy;Social aspects;Religious aspects;Islam.;Social aspects;Influence
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-270) and index
N2  - "Securitizing Islam examines the impact of 9/11 on the lives and perceptions of individuals, focusing on the ways in which identities in Britain have been affected in relation to Islam. 'Securitization' describes the processes by which a particular group or issue comes to be seen as a threat, and thus subject to the perceptions and actions which go with national security. Croft applies this idea to the way in which the attitudes of individuals to their security and to Islam and Muslims have been transformed, affecting the everyday lives of both Muslims and non-Muslims. He argues that Muslims have come to be seen as the 'Other', outside the contemporary conception of Britishness. Reworking securitisation theory and drawing in the sociology of ontological security studies, Securitizing Islam produces a theoretically innovative framework for understanding a contemporary phenomenon that affects the everyday lives of millions"--
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