The Colour of Counterterrorism: Examining British and Canadian counterterrorism with an anti-imperial lens
1:30pm - 2:30pm /
Wednesday 13th October 2021
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Type: Seminar /
Category: Research
- Dr Claire Pierson
- Admission: Free event
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Speaker: Dr Amal Abu-Bakare
Lecturer in the Politics of Race & Decolonial Studies, University of Liverpool
This research seminar will discuss how North American and European political/security institutions continue to empower racially configured exclusions, subjugation, and terror through their iterations of how people hailing past colonies of the Global North should be ordered and seen. Introducing a conceptual framework of the colour line, Dr Amal Abu-Bakare will discuss IR theory’s capacity comprehend state counterterrorism approaches to the 2013 murder of Lee Rigby in Woolwich, and the October 2014 terrorist attacks in Ottawa and Quebec.
This seminar will take place on Zoom and joining details will be sent to those registered via the Eventbrite page below.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-colour-of-counterterrorism-tickets-177926221117
Lecturer in the Politics of Race & Decolonial Studies, University of Liverpool
This research seminar will discuss how North American and European political/security institutions continue to empower racially configured exclusions, subjugation, and terror through their iterations of how people hailing past colonies of the Global North should be ordered and seen. Introducing a conceptual framework of the colour line, Dr Amal Abu-Bakare will discuss IR theory’s capacity comprehend state counterterrorism approaches to the 2013 murder of Lee Rigby in Woolwich, and the October 2014 terrorist attacks in Ottawa and Quebec.
This seminar will take place on Zoom and joining details will be sent to those registered via the Eventbrite page below.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-colour-of-counterterrorism-tickets-177926221117