Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Justice Studies
Learning Methods
Workshop
Module Offerings
6216CRIM-SEP-MTP
Aims
This module aims to:
• Examine the challenges associated with defining and studying terrorism and insurgency
• Assess how terrorism is constructed in social, political, legal, and media discourses
• Analyse how governments and nation-states respond and react to contemporary forms of terrorism in a globalised world
• Map the connections between organised crime and terrorist actors
• Document the effects of counterterrorism and security policy on communities and counter-hegemonic politics more broadly
Learning Outcomes
1.
Critically evaluate the ways in which contemporary terrorism and/or counterterrorism has been defined, constructed, exercised or experienced by communities in a written plan.
2.
Critically analyse the methods, motivations, and justifications given for the employment of political violence by states and/or non-state actors in a globalised world
3.
Critically interrogate the role and impact of counterterrorism policies and security initiatives on communities.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:
Indicative topics/sessions include: • Module Introduction: A History of Terrorism and Political Violence • Orthodox Terrorism Studies (OTS) and Critical Studies on Terrorism (CST) • Law, Legality, and the Challenges of Studying Terrorism • Media, Popular Culture, and the Social Construction of Terrorism • Insurgency, Counterinsurgency, and Irregular Warfare • Protest, Militarisation, and Political Policing • Globalisation, Religion, and the emergence of ‘New Terrorism’ • September 11 and the Global ‘War on Terror’ • The ‘Crime-Terror’ Nexus • Surveillance, Policing, and ‘Suspect Communities’ • ‘(De)Radicalisation’, Countering Violent Extremism (CVE), and Securitisation • Module assessment support & guidance.
Indicative topics/sessions include: • Module Introduction: A History of Terrorism and Political Violence • Orthodox Terrorism Studies (OTS) and Critical Studies on Terrorism (CST) • Law, Legality, and the Challenges of Studying Terrorism • Media, Popular Culture, and the Social Construction of Terrorism • Insurgency, Counterinsurgency, and Irregular Warfare • Protest, Militarisation, and Political Policing • Globalisation, Religion, and the emergence of ‘New Terrorism’ • September 11 and the Global ‘War on Terror’ • The ‘Crime-Terror’ Nexus • Surveillance, Policing, and ‘Suspect Communities’ • ‘(De)Radicalisation’, Countering Violent Extremism (CVE), and Securitisation • Module assessment support & guidance.
Module Overview:
This module examines the challenges associated with defining and studying terrorism and insurgency. As a criminology student, you will assess how terrorism is constructed in social, political, legal, and media discourses. You will analyse how governments and nation-states respond and react to contemporary forms of terrorism in a globalised world, mapping the connections between organised crime and terrorist actors. Alongside this, you will also document the effects of counterterrorism and security policy on communities and counter-hegemonic politics.
This module examines the challenges associated with defining and studying terrorism and insurgency. As a criminology student, you will assess how terrorism is constructed in social, political, legal, and media discourses. You will analyse how governments and nation-states respond and react to contemporary forms of terrorism in a globalised world, mapping the connections between organised crime and terrorist actors. Alongside this, you will also document the effects of counterterrorism and security policy on communities and counter-hegemonic politics.
Additional Information:
This module critically interrogates state and non-state political violence in reference to terrorism, counterterrorism, insurgency, and counterinsurgency war. The module is loosely divided into three broad blocs or segments. Firstly, it maps and evaluates the ways in which terrorism and insurgency are defined, how knowledge about them is produced, and how they are understood in government, policy, and military/security/policing circles. Attention is also given to the way they are socially constructed in popular culture and media discourse and some of the ethical and methodological challenges associated with studying, researching, and teaching the subjects. Secondly, the module engages in a critical examination of the methods used by governments, military, and policing agencies in dealing with terrorism and armed struggle in a globalised world by paying particular attention to wars of counterinsurgency and the global ‘war on terror’ through the study of confinement/imprisonment, law, drone warfare, torture, surveillance, de-radicalisation, militarisation, securitisation, and political policing. Thirdly, the module maps the harmful effects and outcomes of counterterrorism on communities and counter-hegemonic politics more broadly. The aim here is to help students reflect on the discrepancies between what counterterrorism and security policy desire in theory and what they achieve in practice.
This module critically interrogates state and non-state political violence in reference to terrorism, counterterrorism, insurgency, and counterinsurgency war. The module is loosely divided into three broad blocs or segments. Firstly, it maps and evaluates the ways in which terrorism and insurgency are defined, how knowledge about them is produced, and how they are understood in government, policy, and military/security/policing circles. Attention is also given to the way they are socially constructed in popular culture and media discourse and some of the ethical and methodological challenges associated with studying, researching, and teaching the subjects. Secondly, the module engages in a critical examination of the methods used by governments, military, and policing agencies in dealing with terrorism and armed struggle in a globalised world by paying particular attention to wars of counterinsurgency and the global ‘war on terror’ through the study of confinement/imprisonment, law, drone warfare, torture, surveillance, de-radicalisation, militarisation, securitisation, and political policing. Thirdly, the module maps the harmful effects and outcomes of counterterrorism on communities and counter-hegemonic politics more broadly. The aim here is to help students reflect on the discrepancies between what counterterrorism and security policy desire in theory and what they achieve in practice.