A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb

Kumar, Amitava

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“…Although such encouragement maintained an internal logic, student activists themselves feared public speaking did not offer protection. Many cited numerous cases of Muslim men who were convicted of terrorism‐related activities (Aaronson ; Kumar ), such as the cases of Syed Fahad Hashmi and Tarek Mehanna, among others. These two cases in particular involved young men from the East Coast of the United States who are now serving 30‐ and 17‐year prison terms, respectively.…”

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Citizens under Suspicion: Responsive Research with Community under Surveillance

Ali¹

2016

Anthropology & Education Quarterly

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In the 14 years since the 9/11 events, this nation as a whole, and New York City in particular, has escalated its state‐sanctioned surveillance in the lives and activities of Muslims in the United States. This qualitative study examines the ramifications of police infiltration and monitoring of Muslim student and community‐based organizations. Drawing upon 24 months of ethnographic fieldwork among multiple research sites with Muslim secondary and college students in New York City, I examine how surveillance affected the relationships within communities utilizing notions of power, panoptic gaze, and governmentality. From the participatory action ethnographic study, which included this researcher's observations and field notes of meetings, forums, and workshops, and 25 semistructured interviews, key findings show that an insidious result of the New York Police Department's Demographics Unit has been an alarming rise in self‐discipline behaviors amid a culture of fear and panoptic gaze as well as diminished intercommunity trust and sense of solidarity among these youth themselves.

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Citizens under Suspicion: Responsive Research with Community under Surveillance

Ali¹

2016

Anthropology & Education Quarterly

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“…Research on entrapment and terrorism has mainly focused on analyzing individual cases (Kumar 2010;Szpunar 2017), though some studies have examined several prosecutions (Said 2015; McCulloch and Wilson 2016). Norris and Grol-Prokopczyk's (2015) study of about three hundred cases found that about 30 percent of post-9/11 cases involving undercover agents or informants had numerous indications of entrapment.…”

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“…One quantitative study of sting operations in the thirteen years after 9/11 found that about 30 percent of all cases had numerous indicators of entrapment (Norris and Grol-Prokopczyk 2015). Case studies of individual prosecutions have typically concluded that entrapment occurred (Sherman 2009;Kumar 2010; Said 2010; Laguardia 2013; Norris 2016; Szpunar 2017), and broader qualitative analyses of terrorism stings argue that entrapment is widespread (Human Rights Watch 2014; Said 2015; Sageman 2016). Remarkably, such critiques have made inroads among the general public.…”

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Accounting for the (Almost Complete) Failure of the Entrapment Defense in Post-9/11 US Terrorism Cases

Norris¹

2019

Law Soc. Inq.

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Despite a number of compelling entrapment claims in post-9/11 US terrorism cases, these claims have nearly always failed. While previous research suggests possible reasons for this almost complete failure of the entrapment defense, no research has yet systematically examined the mechanisms responsible for this result. Drawing on thirty-seven interviews with individuals with in-depth knowledge of particular cases, as well as textual analysis of court decisions and quantitative analysis of a terrorism database, this article identifies several factors contributing to the entrapment defense’s failure. These include strategic choices by defendants to plead guilty or use other defenses, prosecutorial misconduct, evidence manipulation by informants and police, deficient entrapment doctrines, and procedural irregularities. Consistent with the general trend of counterterrorism law enhancing government power while reducing accountability, the multiple opportunities for authorities to manipulate the legal process leave defendants with little realistic chance of acquittal on entrapment grounds.

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“…CVE, in contrast, identified both a different problem and approach. Rather than targeting those vulnerable to radicalization directly (as the FBI routinely did [Kumar, 2010]), the strategy moved upstream, arguing that American communities were 'targeted by violent extremists,' and the solution was to build their resilience against the threat of radicalization.…”

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Anthropology of security and security in anthropology: Cases of counterterrorism in the United States

Stalcup

Samimian-Darash

2016

Anthropological Theory

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In this article we propose a mode of analysis that allows us to consider security as a form distinct from insecurity, in order to capture the heterogeneity of security objects, logics and forms of action. We first develop a genealogy for the anthropology of security, demarcating four main approaches: violence and state terror; military, militarization, and militarism; para-state securitization; and what we submit as 'security assemblages.' Security assemblages move away from focusing on security formations per se, and how much violence or insecurity they yield, to identifying and studying security forms of action, whether or not they are part of the nation-state. As an approach to anthropological inquiry and theory, it is oriented toward capturing how these forms of action work and what types of security they produce. We illustrate security assemblages through our fieldwork on counterterrorism in the domains of law enforcement, biomedical research and federal-state counter-extremism, in each case arriving at a diagnosis of the form of action. The set of distinctions that we propose is intended as an aid to studying empirical situations, particularly of security, and, on another level, as a proposal for an approach to anthropology today. We do not expect that the distinctions that aid us will suffice in every circumstance. Rather, we submit that this work presents a set of specific insights about contemporary US security, and an example of a new approach to anthropological problems.

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A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb

Cited by 29 publications

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Citizens under Suspicion: Responsive Research with Community under Surveillance

Citizens under Suspicion: Responsive Research with Community under Surveillance

Accounting for the (Almost Complete) Failure of the Entrapment Defense in Post-9/11 US Terrorism Cases

Anthropology of security and security in anthropology: Cases of counterterrorism in the United States

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