Lucy Research Fellow Dr Lorena Gazzotti publishes in Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space online journal
Lorena is the Lucy Cavendish Alice Tong Sze Research Fellow and is based at CRASSH during the period of her Fellowship.
She has co-authored an article with Niyousha Bastani (POLIS, University of Cambridge) that has been published in the Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space online journal. The article is titled “Still a bit uncomfortable, to be an arm of the state”: making sense and subjects of counter-extremism in the UK and Morocco.
The article presents a comparative political ethnography of Countering violent extremism (CVE) projects framed as care provision in the field of education in Morocco and the UK. It asks, how is CVE rationalised for and by non-traditional security actors in education, such as university and NGO administrators, and how is it integrated into the ordinary across the North and the South.
You can find the article here.
Dr Gazzotti comments: “The most important finding we draw out of this paper is that the implementation of CVE projects, such as the Prevent duty at Cambridge or aid-funded CVE projects in Morocco, is normalised by staff working in education settings because some forms of surveillance of youths labelled as 'at risk' is already enshrined in the everyday functioning of these institutions. This is a critical finding, as it alerts us not to accept the infiltration of security into care institutions only because reforms aligns with ‘how we do things here.’”
About the journal
Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space is an international journal of critical, heterodox, and interdisciplinary research into the relations between the political and the spatial. It advances debates on the spatialization of politics and the politicization of spatial relations. The journal welcomes original contributions that integrate empirical and theoretical analyses to engage, advance, challenge, and reframe debates about the political.
Read Lorena’s profile here.