@article{ref1,
title="Producing 'internal suspect bodies': divisive effects of UK counter-terrorism measures on Muslim communities in Leeds and Bradford",
journal="British journal of sociology",
year="2019",
author="Abbas, Madeline-Sophie",
volume="70",
number="1",
pages="261-282",
abstract="Research on UK government counter-terrorism measures has claimed that Muslims are treated as a 'suspect community'. However, there is limited research exploring the divisive effects that membership of a 'suspect community' has on relations within Muslim communities. Drawing from interviews with British Muslims living in Leeds or Bradford, I address this gap by explicating how co-option of Muslim community members to counter extremism fractures relations within Muslim communities. I reveal how community members internalize fears of state targeting which precipitates internal disciplinary measures. I contribute the category of 'internal suspect body' which is materialized through two intersecting conditions within preventative counter-terrorism: the suspected extremist for Muslims to look out for and suspected informer who might report fellow Muslims. I argue that the suspect community operates through a network of relations by which terrors of counter-terrorism are reproduced within Muslim communities with divisive effects.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0007-1315",
doi="10.1111/1468-4446.12366",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12366"
}