As you've no doubt found, amongst the political, international affairs and foreign policy articles there's little enough of any kind of critical view (academics are always practical creatures and there's a lot of money to be made out of taking terrorism at face value, objectifying it and not being too critical... have a look at 'Counter-Insurgency Studies' sometime!) and I'm not really sure how suitable this is for First Years, but:
If you come at it from a biopolitical point-of-view you can do interesting material across a range of social, political and cultural stuff, such as Feldman, S., Geisler, C. and Menon, G. (2011) Accumulating Insecurity: Violence and Dispossession in the Making of Everyday Life (Athens: U.G.P.), not to mention:
John Morrissey (2011): Liberal Lawfare and Biopolitics: US Juridical Warfare in the War on Terror, Geopolitics, 16:2, 280-305.
Torok, R. (2011) The 9/11 Commission Report and the reframing of the ‘war on terror’ as a new type of warfare, Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism, Volume 6, Issue 2, 2011.
Mendieta, E. (2011) The politics of terror and the neoliberal military minimalist state, City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, 15:3-4, 407-413.
More to do with aspects more specifically focused on 'othering' the terrorist, you have pieces like:
Graham, S. D. N. (2005) ’Remember Fallujah : demonising place, constructing atrocity.’, Environment and planning D : society and space., 23 (1). pp. 1-10.
Graham, S. D. N. (2005) ’Constructing ’homeland’ and ’target’ cities in the ’war on terror’.’ (http://dro.dur.ac.uk/18/1/Graham_constructing.pdf).
Le Billon, P. (2006) Fatal Transactions: Conflict Diamonds and the (Anti)Terrorist Consumer, Antipode Volume 38, Issue 4.
Jamal, A. and Naber, C. (2008) Race and Arab Americans before and after 9/11: from invisible citizens to visible subjects (NY: Syracuse University Press).
Hope this helps,
Dr Jon Cloke
Lecturer/Research Associate
Geography Department
Loughborough University
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Subject: Re: Teaching Resource suggestions: Terrorism and Everyday life
Dear all,
I am struggling to find critical geographical readings on terrorism and everyday life that would be accessible to First Year undergraduates. I particularly want them to engage with a critique of the ‘terrorist other’ and the effects of security/fear on their everyday lives.
Any help would be gratefully received and a list of suggestions posted back to this list.
Thank you!
Kath
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