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Constructing the Cyberterrorist: Critical Reflections on the UK Case

Mott, Gareth (2019) Constructing the Cyberterrorist: Critical Reflections on the UK Case. Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies . Routledge, London, UK, 152 pp. ISBN 978-0-367-22355-7. (doi:10.4324/9780429274480) (Access to this publication is currently restricted. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:76534)

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Abstract

This book maps and analyses the official British construction of the threat of cyberterrorism. By using interpretive discourse analysis, this book identifies ‘strands’ from a corpus of policy documents, statements and speeches from UK ministers, MPs and peers, between 12 May 2010 and 24 June 2016. The book examines how the threat of cyberterrorism was constructed in the UK, and what this securitisation has made possible. The author makes novel contributions to the Copenhagen School’s ‘securitisation theory’ framework by outlining a ‘tiered’ rather than monolithic audience system; refining the ‘temporal’ and ‘spatial’ conditioning of a securitisation with reference to the distinctive characteristics of cyberterrorism; and, lastly, by detailing the way in which popular fiction can be ascribed agency to ‘fill in’ an absence of ‘cyberterrorism’ case studies. He also argues that the UK government’s classification of cyberterrorism as a ‘Tier One’ threat created a central strand upon which a discursive securitisation was established.

Item Type: Book
DOI/Identification number: 10.4324/9780429274480
Subjects: H Social Sciences
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Politics and International Relations
Depositing User: Gareth Mott
Date Deposited: 17 Sep 2019 13:23 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Feb 2021 14:07 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/76534 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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