Preventing Terrorism in Europe: Aspects, Effects, Critique

9.15 – 9.30 Introduction : Francesco Ragazzi, University of Leiden and CERI-Sciences Po

9.30 – 11.15 Expertise and the Emergence of the Radicalisation Discourse
Chair & Discussant: Laurent Bonnefoy, CERI-Sciences Po

– Expertise and the Invention and Interventions of ‘Radicalisation’
   Stephanie Simon, University of Amsterdam
– Inventing Expertise: Producing the ‘Radicalisation’ Discourse and the UK PREVENT Strategy
   Charlotte Heath-Kelly, University of Warwick
– The Emperor’s New Words: Discourses of Radicalisation
   Akil Awan, Royal Holloway, University of London
– Five Accounts of the “Making of a Terrorist”: a Micro-Political Sociology of EU Experts On Radicalization
   Francesco Ragazzi, University of Leiden and CERI-Sciences Po

11.30 – 13.15 Categories of Danger: Populations at Risk / Risky Populations
Chair & Discussant: François Bonnet, CNRS – Pacte

– Enacting the Unenactable: the local state and Britain’s Prevent programme
   Paul Thomas, University of Huddersfield
– PREVENT outside the UK. Comparing the cases of Amsterdam, Berlin, Antwerp and Paris
   Floris Vermeulen, University of Amsterdam
– What the fight against “radicalism” represents for the French authorities: the examples of radical Islam
   Bernard Godard, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
– Contextualising CONTEST through Counterinsurgency
   Rizwan Sabir, University of Bath

14.45 – 16.15 Interactions and Effects of Counter-radicalisation
Chair & Discussant: Riva Kastoryano, CNRS/CERI-Sciences Po

– The French Antiterrorist Assemblage and the Struggle against Radicalization
   Laurent Bonelli, Université Paris X – Nanterre
– Disconnected Citizenship? The Impacts of Anti-terrorism Policy on Citizenship in the UK
   Lee Jarvis, University of Swansea
– Negotiating British Muslim Identity in the shadow of UK counter-radicalisation policies
   Tufyal Choudhury, University of Durham

16.30 – 18.00 Governmentalities of Radicalisation
Chair & Discussant: Didier Bigo, CERI-Sciences Po and Kings College

– Refocusing Danish Counter-radicalisation Efforts: Zooming in on the (Problematic) Logic and Practice of Individual De-radicalisation Interventions
   Lasse Lindekilde, University of Aarhus, Denmark
– Why Should We Have to Prove We’re Alright?’: Counter-terrorism, Risk and Partial Securities
   Gabe Mythen, University of Liverpool, UK
– Governing Radical Spaces: the Reformation of Britain’s mosques
   Nayda Ali, University of Reading, UK

 

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