Critiquing counter-terror : the impact of security policy on American, British, and French publics post 9/11
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- In this thesis, "Countering Counter-Terror: The Impact of Security Policy on American, British and French Publics Post 9/11", I reframe counter-terrorism law as performance; I argue it is a scenario or blue-print for military and civilian interactions in the public sphere. As evidence of how counter-terrorism is a form of performance, I explore the intersections between security policy in the United States of America, the United Kingdom, and the fifth French Republic and immigration practices, indeterminate detention, torture, and mass surveillance. More specifically, I demonstrate how the U.S. Patriot Act (2001), UK CONTEST (2007 -- 2019), and France's SILT law (2017) have significantly reduced peoples' privacy, impacted peoples' right to freedom of movement and of speech, and escalated racial, class, religious and ethnic divides. Though particular emphasis is placed on the violence perpetrated against disenfranchised Muslim and/or Arab communities, this dissertation argues that national security discourses are broadly betraying the democratic values and institutions they purport to protect
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2020; ©2020 |
| Publication date | 2020; 2020 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Tyrrell, Áine Josephine Mary |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Elam, Harry Justin |
| Degree supervisor | Menon, Jisha, 1972- |
| Thesis advisor | Elam, Harry Justin |
| Thesis advisor | Menon, Jisha, 1972- |
| Thesis advisor | Alduy, Cécile |
| Thesis advisor | Holloway, D. J |
| Degree committee member | Alduy, Cécile |
| Degree committee member | Holloway, D. J |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Theater and Performance Studies. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Áine Josephine Tyrrell |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Theater and Performance Studies |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2020 |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2020 by Aine Josephine Mary Tyrrell
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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