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This book compares the use of 'terrorism' by states in the Global North (Britain in Northern Irel... more This book compares the use of 'terrorism' by states in the Global North (Britain in Northern Ireland) and South (Nepal), examining particular events over time. As such, it questions conventional understandings that states cannot be 'terrorists' and that post '9/11' terrorism is new. It does so by outlining how states have used the label of 'terrorism' to establish a specific 'counterterrorist' identity for themselves and by indicating how similar strategies of representation were used by the British and Nepali states while labeling others as 'terrorist'. Because it draws on rhetorical analysis, discursive psychology and critical security studies to analyze the politics of labelling, it is expected this book will be useful to a wide range of readers from political science, International Relations, terrorism studies and also media, cultural and area studies.

This book shows how to use a range of critical approaches to do research on terrorism. It includ... more This book shows how to use a range of critical approaches to do research on terrorism.

It includes a diverse range of critical methodological approaches – including discourse analysis, feminist, postcolonial, ethnographic, critical theory, and visual analysis of terrorism. The main objectives of the book are to assist researchers in adopting and applying various critical approaches to the study of terrorism. This goal is achieved by bringing together a number of different scholars working on the topic of terrorism from a range of non-variable-based approaches. Their individual chapters discuss explicitly the research methods used and methodological commitments made by the authors, while also illustrating the application of their particular critical perspective to the topic of terrorism.

[The book is edited by me and Jacob Stump and will be out in July 2015]

From the catalogue: "Introducing students to important developments in the critical study of terr... more From the catalogue: "Introducing students to important developments in the critical study of terrorism, the book has three key themes: (1) the position of critical terrorism studies within the discipline of International Relations (IR); (2) theoretical and methodological elaborations of critical approaches to the study of terrorism; (3) empirical illustrations of those approaches. The book’s objective is to present a diverse and useful set of readings for students interested in studying terrorism through a critical lens.

Mainstream books on terrorism provide little or no information about the new critical approaches, and this books aims to fill that vacuum. It provides material that students and teachers can use to begin learning the diverse ways to critically and rigorously study terrorism. At the same time, each chapter will have empirical examples that illustrate how each of these methodologies has been applied in practice. In sum, the book reviews a series of non-variable based methodological approaches and it provides empirical examples that illustrate how these approaches have been and can be utilized by students, teachers, and postgraduate researchers alike."

Papers by Priya Dixit

Organic Preparations and Procedures International, 1983

Critical Methods in Terrorism Studies, 2015

CNRE Anamaria Bukvic 1 (Geography) Ashley Dayer (Fish and Wildlife Conservation) Jim Fraser (Fish... more CNRE Anamaria Bukvic 1 (Geography) Ashley Dayer (Fish and Wildlife Conservation) Jim Fraser (Fish and Wildlife Conservation) Sarah Karpanty (Fish and Wildlife Conservation) Daniel Catlin (Fish and Wildlife Conservation) Luke Juran (Geography, Virginia Water Resources Research Center) Randy Wynne (Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, Center for Environmental Applications of Remote Sensing) VM Julia Gohlke (Population Health Sciences) CALS Kevin Boyle (Director, Program in Real Estate) Venkat Sridhar (Sri) (Biological Systems Engineering, CALS/COE) COE Jennifer Irish (Civil and Environmental Engineering) Roberto Leon (Civil and Environmental Engineering) COB Christopher Zobel (Business Information Technology) Loren Rees (Business Information Technology) CAUS Yang Zhang (Urban Affairs and Planning) Todd Schenk (School of Public and International Affairs) CLAHS Priya Dixit (Political Science)

Critical Studies on Terrorism, 2016

Contemporary Cases in U.S. Foreign Policy: From Terrorism to Trade, 2000

State Terror, State Violence, 2015

Critical Studies on Security, 2015

The social construction of state terrorism, 2015

Journal of Cultural Economy, 2014

... new colleagues at the politics department at the University of Amsterdam, in particular John ... more ... new colleagues at the politics department at the University of Amsterdam, in particular John Grin and Marlies Glasius, has ... Alexandra Hall, Luis Lobo-Guerrero, Randy Martin, Valsamis Mitsilegas, Mathew Paterson, Rita Raley, Beate Roessler, Rens van Munster, William Walters ...

International Relations, 2012

This paper uses Patrick Thaddeus Jackson’s monism/dualism distinction to clarify ongoing methodol... more This paper uses Patrick Thaddeus Jackson’s monism/dualism distinction to clarify ongoing methodological debates among students of critical terrorism studies (CTS). We map the distinction onto the CTS literature and emphasize the distinctive ontological starting points and the distinctive epistemological frameworks entailed by each perspective. Then we critically engage monistic, or interpretivist, CTS research, especially that of Richard Jackson. We argue

Global Change, Peace & Security, 2013

This book shows how to use a range of critical approaches to do research on terrorism. It includ... more This book shows how to use a range of critical approaches to do research on terrorism.

[The book is edited by me and Jacob Stump and will be out in July 2015]

Organic Preparations and Procedures International, 1983

Critical Methods in Terrorism Studies, 2015

Critical Studies on Terrorism, 2016

Contemporary Cases in U.S. Foreign Policy: From Terrorism to Trade, 2000

State Terror, State Violence, 2015

Critical Studies on Security, 2015

The social construction of state terrorism, 2015

Journal of Cultural Economy, 2014

International Relations, 2012

Global Change, Peace & Security, 2013

This article examines connections between visuality and security, utilizing United States (US) re... more This article examines connections between visuality and security, utilizing United States (US) representations of the death of Osama bin Laden to call for decolonizing visuality in security studies. While there has been increasing research in visuality and International Relations, there is less emphasis on a postcolonial visuality approach to security studies. Concerns raised by postcolonial scholars regarding power relations, being looked at (and categorized) and issues of race and gender can inform theorizing and understanding of visuality in security studies. This article analyzes pictorial, textual, and architectural representations of the death of bin Laden in order to note what was made invisible and thus forgotten in the construction of official US accounts of the killing. It argues that adopting a decolonial approach not only identifies these invisibilities in the dominant US narrative, but also directs attention to how a shift in standpoint leads to other issues, identities, and meanings about the event (and about ‘security’) being foregrounded.

Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 2011

... 2006), and Krause and Williams (1997). In terrorism studies, such classification does not exi... more ... 2006), and Krause and Williams (1997). In terrorism studies, such classification does not exist as all “critical” scholarship is assumed to work similar presuppositions, including emancipation and “relativist pall” (Jones and Smith 2009). 5. Patrick Thaddeus Jackson (2008) argues ...