The gray cygnet problem in terrorism research

Huey, Laura; Varanese, Joseph; Broll, Ryan

doi:10.4324/9781315738291-3

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“…It has been highlighted that building predictive models based on establishing stable norms for extemporaneous ‘black swan’ terrorism events is near impossible (Huey et al, 2015). We suggest that pre-emption, as a racially-determined martial logic, relates to the post-racial to constitute a modality of knowing the future, managing uncertainty and containing the perpetual threat of racialized ‘otherness’, abnormality and difference–‘what is in or out of place’.…”

Section: Pre-empting Racialized Terrormentioning

confidence: 99%

Post-racial politics, pre-emption and in/security

Sharma

Nijjar

2023

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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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.

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Section: Pre-empting Racialized Terrormentioning

confidence: 99%