Richard Jackson: Critical Terrorism Studies - a podcast by John F. Morrison

Richard Jackson is Professor of Peace Studies and Director of the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Otago, New Zealand. He is known as one of the founding scholars of the field of Critical Terrorism Studies, and has published a number of books, articles and chapters on the critical study of terrorism. He is the founding editor and current editor-in-chief of the journal, Critical Studies on Terrorism, and his latest book is The Routledge Handbook of Critical Terrorism Studies (editor, Routledge, 2016). His current research focuses on nonviolent responses to terrorism.

Research that has influenced Richard's career

Joseba Zulaika and William Douglass (1996) Terror and Taboo: The Follies, Fables, and Faces of Terrorism.

David Campbell (1998). Writing Security: United States Foreign Policy and the Politics of Identity, Revised edition

Lisa Stampnitzky (2013). Disciplining Terror: How Experts Invented “Terrorism”

Some of Richard's key research

Writing on the War on Terrorism. (2005)

Constructing enemies: ‘Islamic Terrorism’ in Political and Academic Discourse. (2007)

The Epistemological Crisis of Counterterrorism. (2015)

Further episodes of Talking Terror

Further podcasts by John F. Morrison

Website of John F. Morrison