Towards anarchist abolitionist futures for violence prevention: Beyond 'counterterrorism'

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dc.contributor.authorDixit, Priyaen
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-27T14:24:39Zen
dc.date.available2025-01-27T14:24:39Zen
dc.date.issued2024-11-25en
dc.description.abstractRecent critical scholarship on terrorism has centred on matters of race, class, and gender regarding how counterterrorism policies are connected to multiple systems of hierarchical power relations. This article builds upon this scholarship and looks towards the future. It engages with understandings of emancipatory futures in critical scholarship on terrorism while drawing upon abolitionist and anarchist political thought to expand understandings of such futures. Anarchist and abolitionist thinking are useful for considering futures beyond the 'global war on terror' (GWOT) because of their anti-state and anti-domination orientations and focus on building alternatives to prevent and manage violence apart from contemporary 'counterterrorism'. After providing an outline of anarchist and abolitionist thought, the article connects these to contemporary examples drawn from the United States and Nepal. In doing so, it theorises and imagines futures for preventing violence and building public security that are linked to anarchist and abolitionist understandings of violence and the state. In contrast to 'power politics' which centres on the state, an anarchist abolitionist approach explores how safety and security can be reimagined and remade in the absence of a state.en
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dc.format.extent18 page(s)en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1017/eis.2024.45en
dc.identifier.eissn2057-5645en
dc.identifier.issn2057-5637en
dc.identifier.orcidDixit, Priya [0000-0002-8171-4800]en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10919/124383en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectabolitionisten
dc.subjectanarchisten
dc.subjectNepalen
dc.subjectUnited Statesen
dc.subjectwar on terroren
dc.titleTowards anarchist abolitionist futures for violence prevention: Beyond 'counterterrorism'en
dc.title.serialEuropean Journal of International Securityen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
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dc.type.otherArticleen
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pubs.organisational-groupVirginia Tech/All T&R Facultyen
pubs.organisational-groupVirginia Tech/Liberal Arts and Human Sciencesen
pubs.organisational-groupVirginia Tech/Liberal Arts and Human Sciences/Political Scienceen
pubs.organisational-groupVirginia Tech/Liberal Arts and Human Sciences/CLAHS T&R Facultyen

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