Domesticating Insecurity: Multi-culturalism, Migration and Violent Democracy.

The paper starts from the London bombings in July 2005, asking a double question: (a) how do references to terrorist violence bear upon the political contestation of multiculturalism; and (b)what are the political stakes that are negotiated and contested in this process. The paper examines how 'terrorist violence' becomes politically embedded in a wider societal problematique of seggregation versus unity, integration versus fragmentation. The dominant renditions of society in these accounts focus on a tension between shared values and freedom of individual expression. The paper will argue that the stake of the game is not simply difference and identity, problematized through multiculturalism, extremism and migration but the way in which one constructs the societal as a realm of government and politics. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]