Abstract: In this paper I am offering the reader a conceptual framework for terror that is totally different from the traditional one attributed to terrorism. Among our expanding gallery of experts, terrorism experts are those trained to the highest level of professional incompetence when it comes to dealing with terror attacks. Unlike terrorism, which focuses on hidden networks and requires costly technologies and specialised knowledge (say, network analysis, group surveillance, infiltration), terror works on the side of reception as a magnifier of the terror act after it has been committed.
Keywords: Binary oppositions, binarisation, dualism, human rights, Guantanamo, Belmarsh, GCHQ, US PATRIOT Act 2001, UK Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001, Draft Communications Data Bill 2012, Snoopers’ Charter, Investigatory Powers Bill 2015, Investigatory Powers Act 2016, spy agencies, secrecy, terror, terrorism, Lee Rigby, Khalid Masood, Mohammed Emwazi, Jihadi John, James Bond.
Title: Conceptual Distinction between Terror and Terrorism
Author: Fred Perez
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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