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020			_a9781107632868
082	0	0	_a363.325 _bCRO/S
100	1		_aCroft, Stuart.
245	1	0	_aSecuritizing Islam : identity and the search for security
260			_aCambridge; _bCambridge University Press, _c2012.
300			_aviii, 278 pages ;
520			_a"Securitizing Islam examines the impact of 9/11 on the lives and perceptions of individuals, focusing on the ways in which identities in Britain have been affected in relation to Islam. 'Securitization' describes the processes by which a particular group or issue comes to be seen as a threat, and thus subject to the perceptions and actions which go with national security. Croft applies this idea to the way in which the attitudes of individuals to their security and to Islam and Muslims have been transformed, affecting the everyday lives of both Muslims and non-Muslims. He argues that Muslims have come to be seen as the 'Other', outside the contemporary conception of Britishness. Reworking securitisation theory and drawing in the sociology of ontological security studies, Securitizing Islam produces a theoretically innovative framework for understanding a contemporary phenomenon that affects the everyday lives of millions"--
650		0	_aTerrorism
650		0	_aIslam
650		0	_aMuslims
650		0	_aIslamic fundamentalism
650		0	_aInternal security
650		0	_aNational security
650		0	_aSeptember 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001
650		7	_aPolitical science
650		7	_aInternational relations
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