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Terrorism in the ClassroomGovernmentality and Managing Security Risks

Terrorism in the Classroom: Governmentality and Managing Security Risks [After briefly exploring different theoretical models of power, this chapter provides an overview of the radical model of power put forward by Michel Foucault, placing a specific focus on his ‘third modality’—governmentality. The chapter moves on to demonstrate how the Prevent Duty operates as an extension of a broader strategy of neoliberal governance that seeks to manage the population through an encroachment of the national security agenda into sections of civil society such as education. To demonstrate how this has been achieved, the chapter discusses how the productive discourses of radicalisation, vulnerability, and resilience work within (and constitute) a ‘dispositif of precautionary risk’ to contribute towards the entrenchment of a particular ‘risk knowledge’, elevating it to the status of truth and legitimising this unprecedented expansion of counter-terrorism powers into education. The chapter concludes by arguing that this expansion, which has been presented as ‘common sense’ and necessary, is instead a worrying development directed at a section of the population and motivated by an enhanced ability to manage potential risks that puts further strain on already stretched practitioners, limits expression and thought within education, and broadens notion of suspicious populations to include students and young people.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
ISBN
978-3-030-01709-5
Pages
61 –76
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-01710-1_5
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Abstract

[After briefly exploring different theoretical models of power, this chapter provides an overview of the radical model of power put forward by Michel Foucault, placing a specific focus on his ‘third modality’—governmentality. The chapter moves on to demonstrate how the Prevent Duty operates as an extension of a broader strategy of neoliberal governance that seeks to manage the population through an encroachment of the national security agenda into sections of civil society such as education. To demonstrate how this has been achieved, the chapter discusses how the productive discourses of radicalisation, vulnerability, and resilience work within (and constitute) a ‘dispositif of precautionary risk’ to contribute towards the entrenchment of a particular ‘risk knowledge’, elevating it to the status of truth and legitimising this unprecedented expansion of counter-terrorism powers into education. The chapter concludes by arguing that this expansion, which has been presented as ‘common sense’ and necessary, is instead a worrying development directed at a section of the population and motivated by an enhanced ability to manage potential risks that puts further strain on already stretched practitioners, limits expression and thought within education, and broadens notion of suspicious populations to include students and young people.]

Published: Nov 30, 2018

Keywords: Governmentality; Power; Foucault; Precaution; Risk

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