@inbook{421ec88fcabc45eb93be97a066fb205b,
title = "European urban (counter-)terrorism{\textquoteright}s spacetimematterings: More-than-human materialisations in situationscaping times",
abstract = "Infusing contemporary critical terrorism studies (CTS) with concepts and methodologies from philosophy and critical theory via a Baradian posthumanist agential realist perspective and (counter)terrorist cases and vignettes, this chapter argues for a retheorisation of (counter)terrorism. It does so, firstly, by reconceptualising terrorism and counterterrorism as complex assemblages consisting not only of discursive-material components – an entanglement now largely accepted within CTS and critical security studies (CSS) – but also of affective layers and more-than-human phenomena. Secondly, by analysing European urban (counter)terrorist cases from the UK, Germany, France, and Spain, together with these cases{\textquoteright} surprising spacetime-jumping interlinkages underwriting what we here conceptualise as queer(ing) spacetimematterings, this chapter zooms in on the intra-actions taking place between human and more-than-human agential phenomena and their risk-managed urban environments. Lastly, extra analytical attention is paid to how, in this neoliberal day and age – here rephrased as control society-driven {\textquoteleft}situationscaping times{\textquoteright} – very specific macro- and micropolitical violence-preventing measures and efforts are employed in the fight against various manifestations of urban terror and terrorism.",
keywords = "Critical terrorism studies, Terrorism, Counter-terrorism, Violence, Political philosophy, Posthumanism, Agential realism, Barad, Spacetimematterings, Urban terrorism, Terrorism in Europe, International Relations",
author = "Evelien Geerts and Katharina Karcher and Yordanka Dimcheva and {Toribio Medina}, Mireya",
year = "2023",
month = may,
day = "16",
doi = "10.4324/9781003266709-4",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781032210957",
series = "Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies",
publisher = "Routledge",
pages = "31--52",
editor = "Alice Martini and {da Silva}, Raquel",
booktitle = "Contemporary Reflections on Critical Terrorism Studies",
edition = "1st",
}