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SUMMARY:State of Exception\, Spaces of Terror: The Concentrationary Gothic
  and Whiteness as Spectral Terrorist - University of Cambridge 
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DESCRIPTION:Analyses of the ‘law’s Gothic space’ (Chaplin\, 2007: 86
 ) provides a\nsignificant context in which to disrupt conceptions of terro
 r/ist.  I advance a framework for exploring the terrorising practices\nexp
 erienced by British Muslims during the ‘war on terror’ termed the ‘C
 oncentrationary Gothic\,’ which extends inquiry of the state of exceptio
 n experienced by the Muslim Other using a Gothic\nintelligibility.  In par
 ticular\, I explore how whiteness operates as a spectral terrorist through
  its absence from hegemonic frameworks of terror\, which perpetuates the g
 othicisation of Muslims as ‘terrorist-monsters’ (Puar\, 2007\; Puar an
 d Rai\, 2002).  Pre-emptive counter-terrorism measures rework the boundari
 es separating legal from the extra-legal (Valier\, 2002: 333) where Muslim
 s can be picked up without committing a crime.   This situation illustrate
 s how the law can function as a haunted space that in turn\, organises how
  material spaces come to be haunted by the spectre of counter-terrorism of
 ficials. Drawing from the words of British Muslims\, I explore how everyda
 y spaces such as the home and the street are experienced as sites of terro
 r following from Muslims’ relegation to the law’s extra-legal spaces t
 o reconfigure citizenship.
LOCATION:B3 Institute of Criminology Sidgwick Site
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