The “Trojan Horse” scandal laid bare an anxiety at the heart of the British security establishment; an anxiety that brings together questions of identity, values, and security within the demand to manage radicalization. It is an anxiety that, I will argue, reveals a novel conceptualization of threat that has driven the UK’s security and communities policies within the “war on terror.” This conceptualization emerges within Prevent, the UK’s counter‐radicalization strategy. Yet, I argue, the extensive literature on Prevent has failed to adequately articulate this underlying, core logic. To date, the Prevent literature has effectively demonstrated the ways in which Muslim communities in the United Kingdom have been policed through British counter‐radicalization policy. Yet, this analysis struggles to explain the expansion of Prevent into a wider range of “extremist” spaces. In this article, I contend that it is more useful to situate Prevent as a particular conception of power; a logic and an analysis of threat that demands new forms of government intervention. To do so, this article provides a genealogical reading of Prevent, locating it as a radical extension of state security ambitions to intervene early, making explicit a vision of security in which life as a process of becoming is produced as an object of management. The paper draws out the ramifications of this analysis to think through fundamental shifts in the principles and practices of contemporary security aspirations.

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反激进化的激进野心

“特洛伊木马”丑闻暴露了英国安全机构的核心焦虑；一种焦虑，在管理激进化的需求中汇集了身份、价值观和安全问题。我认为，这种焦虑揭示了一种新的威胁概念，它在“反恐战争”中推动了英国的安全和社区政策。这种概念出现在英国的反激进化战略“预防”中。然而，我认为，关于预防的大量文献未能充分阐明这种潜在的核心逻辑。迄今为止，Prevent 文献已经有效地展示了英国的穆斯林社区通过英国反激进化政策受到监管的方式。然而，该分析难以解释预防扩展到更广泛的“极端主义”空间。在本文中，我认为将预防作为一种特殊的权力概念更为有用；需要新形式的政府干预的威胁逻辑和分析。为此，本文提供了预防的谱系解读，将其定位为早期干预的国家安全野心的根本延伸，明确了安全的愿景，在其中，作为生成过程的生命被生产为管理对象。本文引述了这一分析的后果，以思考当代安全愿望的原则和实践的根本转变。需要新形式的政府干预的威胁逻辑和分析。为此，本文提供了预防的谱系解读，将其定位为早期干预的国家安全野心的根本延伸，明确了安全的愿景，在其中，作为生成过程的生命被生产为管理对象。本文引述了这一分析的后果，以思考当代安全愿望的原则和实践的根本转变。需要新形式的政府干预的威胁逻辑和分析。为此，本文提供了预防的谱系解读，将其定位为早期干预的国家安全野心的根本延伸，明确了安全的愿景，在其中，作为生成过程的生命被生产为管理对象。本文引述了这一分析的后果，以思考当代安全愿望的原则和实践的根本转变。