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Abstract

How are terror threats and counterterrorism measures experienced in everyday urban spaces? We argue that thinking atmospherically about the spaces of urban encounters with (counter)terrorism is important, firstly, to identify and question feelings and dispositions shaped by discourses, practices, and infrastructures of (counter)terrorism; secondly, to contribute spatial perspectives of felt experience to literatures on security and (counter)terrorism in geography and beyond; thirdly, to connect official understandings of (counter)terrorism with its everyday felt experiences and materialities. We highlight two conceptual and empirical arenas - the crowd and the question of difference - where atmospheric approaches to urban (counter)terrorism can be developed.

Publication Date

2024-09-26

Publication Title

Progress in Human Geography

Volume

48

Issue

6

ISSN

0309-1325

Acceptance Date

2024-06-29

Deposit Date

2024-08-16

Funding

The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the Open Research Area (ORA) grant for the Social Sciences (2021-2024) “Atmospheres of (Counter)terrorism in European Cities” (www.atmoct.org); funding was provided by Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC: ES/V01353X/1); Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-20-ORAR-0006), and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG: PN 440838216).

Keywords

Terrorism, atmosphere, counterterrorism, crowds, difference, urban space

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