In this bonus episode Dr Harrison Swinhoe and Marine Gueguin will discuss their own research within terrorism studies.

Dr Harrison Swinhoe is an Early Career Research at the University of Leeds. His PhD thesis explored how the Islamic State’s strategic narratives of sovereignty and political legitimacy were constructed through the English language propaganda content produced by the group between 2014 and 2017. In so doing his thesis analysed a range of discourses constructed by the Islamic State and the relationship between these discourses and the group’s strategic narratives of sovereignty and political legitimacy. This thesis was supervised by Pr Jack Holland and Dr Gordon Clubb. Dr Swinhoe has also published an article in Critical Studies on Terrorism entitled, '“They are not muslims. They are monsters”: the accidental takfirism of British political elites', which explored discursive practices utilised by British political elites to police the boundaries of religion and the potential implications and risks of these discursive practices. You can also find him on:

https://twitter.com/harryswinhoe

https://css.leeds.ac.uk/profiles/harrison-swinhoe/

His recent publication:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17539153.2021.1902614

Marine Gueguin is a postgraduate researcher at the University of Leeds. Her thesis focuses on French counterterrorism strategy, and specifically a critique of the crystallisation and/or normalisation of emergency powers, looking at securitisation and a critique of securitisation framework, the construction of the terrorist identity in a French context and the application of emergency powers through a decolonial perspective. Her thesis is supervised by Prof Edward Newman and Dr Gordon Clubb.

She previously worked as a research assistant for the InterParliamentary Union, the IPU, working on the 3rd Global Parliamentary Report released in April 2022. Marine Gueguin has continued to work with the InterParliamentary Union, engaging in research on Tunisia and newly democratised regimes for the IPU’s Global Parliamentary Report which was published recently. She also co-authored an article with Frank Feulner based on research undertaken for the Global Parliamentary Report entitled “Building Public Engagement in Small Island Nations” which will be published in a special issue in the Journal of Legislative Studies.

Marine has also written book chapter entitled “ Are French counterterrorism strategies a colonial legacy? What remains from the colonial matrix when constructing and responding to the threat of terrorism?” for a forthcoming edited book by Prof Tahir Abbas, Dr Sagnick Dutta, and Dr Sylvia Bergh.

You can also find her on:

https://twitter.com/GueguinMarine

https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/politics/pgr/875/marine-gueguin-

3rd Global Parliamentary Report, IPU:

https://www.ipu.org/resources/publications/reports/2022-03/global-parliamentary-report-2022

Stay tuned, 'Insecure: A security podcast' will be back next month with its 3rd episode!

Harry & Marine for the CGSC.

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