Community, citizenship and the 'war on terror' : security and insecurity / edited by Patricia Noxolo and Jef Huysmans.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Community, citizenship, and the 'war on terror' : security and insecurity / Patricia Noxolo and Jef Huysmans -- Governing the social and the problem of the 'stranger' / Gordon Hughes -- Insecurity and community relations : vulnerability and the protests at the Holy Cross girls primary school in Belfast / Chris Gilligan -- Love thy neighbour : change and insecurity in neighbourly relations / Alessandra Buonfino -- Terrorist threat, freedom and politics in Europe / Anastassia Tsoukala -- Precarious citizenship : media and insecurity in multicultural Britain / Marie Gillespie and Ben O'Loughlin -- An 'ordinary' couple : Samantha Lewthwaite, Jermaine Lindsay and the 'secularitisation' of community / Patricia Noxolo -- Mobility and identity : India, the United States, and cross-border flows in a time of terrorism / Karthika Sasikumar -- Unease about strangers : leveraging anxiety as the basis for policy / Don Flynn -- How to do things with security post 9/11 / Dora Kostakopoulou -- Conclusion : Insecurity and the everyday / Jef Huysmans.

The issue of security {u2013} what it means and how it can be achieved - is one of the defining questions of the early 21st century. It is a question that has come to affect more and more intimate elements of people's lives, impacting on relationships between states, between individuals and the state, but also between individuals as they interact in their everyday lives. This is the starting point of this interdisciplinary collection, which aims to both unpack and engage with current debates in the global fight against terrorism by focusing on the question of what security and insecurity do, can and should mean politically. Considering a wide range of social and political forums in a range of countries, the chapters in this book open up a serious debate about what community and citizenship mean in the present securitized context, in order to sharpen our appreciation of the political and social consequences of the range of understandings that are currently under negotiation.