The Politics of Radicalisation: Reframing the Debate and Reclaiming the Language

The increased usage and shifting meaning of the term ‘radicalisation’, and the way it is deployed politically, is the focus of this CSRV sponsored event.  In particular, it is concerned with the way in which ‘radicalisation’ has become synonymous with particular political-religious orientations, how it has functioned to construct Muslims as a ‘suspect community’, and how it has informed specific government programmes and perspectives on ‘de-radicalisation’.  It is also concerned with the ways in which current perspectives on ‘radicalisation’ have a distorting effect on scholarly research and research funding.