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Social Cohesion and Counter-Terrorism A Policy Contradiction?

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ISBN-10: 1847428010

ISBN-13: 9781847428011

Edition: 2011

Authors: Charles Husband, Yunis Alam

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This work offers a research- based contribution to the debate around community cohesion and counter-terrorism policies in Britain. It is based upon privileged access to staff and elected members at 5 major local authorities, and upon qualitative interviews with a diverse range of people from differing ethnic communities.
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Book details

List price: $26.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Policy Press
Publication date: 2/10/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Charles Husband is professor emeritus of social analysis at the University of Bradford in the UK, docent in sociology at the University of Helsinki, and visiting professor at the Sami University College in Kautokeino, Norway.

Yunis Alam is a lecturer in the division of social sciences and criminal justice studies at the University of Bradford.

Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Background and development
Method
The sample
Terms of engagement
Interpretation
Structure of the book
Community Cohesion: its development and limitations
Introduction
Community Cohesion: putting its initial emergence into the historical context of British ethnic relations
The 1981 'riots' and the Scarman Report
Post-Scarman and 'the enemy within'
The 'Rushdie Affair' and the emergence of a Muslim political identity
Muslim difference and British identity and values
The murder of Stephen Lawrence and the Macpherson Report
Social cohesion in the context of wider Labour Party policy
RED, SID and MUD: competing underlying discourses
Social capital: the elixir of social cohesion
Emergence of Community Cohesion and its linkage to 'self-segregation'
Community cohesion and its ideological baggage
The prevention of violent extremism
Introduction
Emergence of British counter-terrorist policy post the London bombings
Construction of Prevent and its focus on Islam
Muslims, the media and terrorism
Media and representing diversity
Media and counter-terrorism
Counter-terrorism in the wider context of securitisation
Prevent and human rights
Conclusion
Anti-Muslimism
Introduction
Anti-Muslimism defined and revealed
Deconstructing Islamophobia
Examining the dynamics of anti-Muslimism
Theorising the dynamics of anti-Muslimism: Werbner (2005)
Theorising the dynamics of anti-Muslimism: contemporary social psychological insights
Conclusion
The experience of managing Community Cohesion and Prevent
Introduction
Managing Community Cohesion and Prevent: the organisational response
The local state and central government
Policy overload and local discretion
Prevent as politically problematic, and its implications for the implementation of community cohesion
The intersection of Prevent and Community Cohesion
Funding
The 'usual suspects'
Prevent as morally problematic to local authority staff
Specific experience of Muslim staff members
Communities, identities, governance
Community perceptions
Muslim communities
Non-Muslim communities
Myth busting
Interference from other government policies
Community Cohesion, Prevent and inequality
Conclusion
Conclusion
Introduction
Implications of the data on the implementation of Community Cohesion and Prevent
Organisational context and response
The political impact of Prevent
Managing Community Cohesion and Prevent
The experience of local authority personnel
Communities, identities and governance
Symptoms and causes: the marginalisation of inequality
Making explicit a theoretical framework for Community Cohesion and counter-terrorism
Bibliography
Index of subjects
Index of authors