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The Third Position on Far Right and Islamist Extremism

Far right and Islamist politics are mutually dependent in the shared displacement of 'the Muslim' For some time now, I have been trying to make sense of the process by which a particular representation of the figure of ‘the Muslim’ is intrinsically entangled in Islamist and far right politics.[1] The prevalence of the Muslim ‘other’ […]

Critiquing Countering Violent Extremism

From 2016 to 2019, in thinking through this topic further, first as a senior researcher at the Royal United Services Institute in Whitehall in London looking after the CVE portfolio for a period before joining the Institute in 2018, I was taken aback at the lack of contextualisation of radicalisation, the long-standing issues that stem […]