Lorraine Johnson-Riordan and Damien W. Riggs
(editors)
Editorial
This
issue of critical psychology aims to bring ‘white terror’ to centre stage.
Contributors examine the ways in which terror has always been a systematic
part of the project of Western imperial modernity (and postmodernity);
and they show that it is thus itself largely responsible for the events
that it now names as ‘terrorism’ and locates as coming from outside its
borders. They also examine the role that the struggle for white hegemony
plays in the production of terror.
The issue includes: analysis of some of the different forms through which contemporary racism manifests itself; accounts of continuing struggles over land and the rights of indigenous peoples in settler colonies, where there have been recent attempts to undermine gains made in previous battles; a discussion of the role of discourses of love in reinforcing possessive investments in patriarchal white sovereignty; and an analysis of discourses of mateship and fraternity amongst soldiers in the ‘Coalition of the Willing’. It also includes two articles on asylum seekers in the age of (post)Empire, which look at forms of mental illness produced by the state’s inhuman management of asylum seekers, and at negative media representations of asylum seekers.
Contributors
Michael Breen, Eoin Devereux, Karen Frewin, Amanda Haynes, Mike Hill, Derek Hook, John Kaye, Ross Kendall, Damien McInerney, Jason Pudsey, Damien Riggs, Lorraine Johnson Riordan, Keith Tuffin, Ben Wadham
The image used on the front cover is by Lanfranco Aceti and is from his exhibition ‘Global Doubt’ which was at The Toilet Gallery in Kingston, London in 2004. The image remains copyright of the artist.
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