Description
In the context of 2015 Paris attacks, France strengthened its focus on countering terrorism, securitising the threat of terrorism, and normalising the exceptional measures. Of significant importance is the deliberate expansion of anti-terror measures beyond their original counterterrorism scope. Understudied in Critical Terrorism Studies is an exploration of the dynamics of everyday logic in the French context, looking at the colonialities of the everyday application of anti-terror strategies. France emerges as a compelling case study that vividly illustrates how political practices and discourses position the domestic space as the focal point of protection and security through militarisation and securitisation post-2015 attacks. It questions the interplay between anti-terror measures and their applications in the past, in the urgency, and beyond. How do these measures, originally designed for countering terrorism, transcend their initial purpose to militarise other space(s) as an expression of colonialities? What mechanisms underlie the application of such measures, facilitating the diffusion of quotidian military control and surveillance, all justified under “national security”? Is everyday security for everyone, everywhere? The paper follows a socio-spatial approach to security, underscoring the importance of a comprehensive analysis of the intricate connections between security dynamics and the spaces and bodies they securitise, police and militarise in the everyday. Therefore the paper uncovers the quotidian utilisation of CT techniques and tools that ultimately create space(s) of (in)security, militarise the domestic space and securitise bodies rooted in colonial legacies.
