The ‘new home front’ and the war on terror: ethical and political reframing of national and international politics |
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| Authors: | GILLIAN YOUNGS |
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| Institution: | 1. Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Leicester.;2. This article has been developed out of the ESRC research seminar series ‘Ethics and the war on terror: politics, multiculturalism and media’ (RES–451–25–4188), 2006–2009, led by the author with Prof. Simon Caney (University of Oxford) and Prof. Heather Widdows (University of Birmingham). |
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| Abstract: | This article adopts the notion of the ‘new home front’ to consider the spatial complexity of the war on terror and the blurring of domestic and foreign policy divides. It considers the politics and ethics of the war in three main areas: new media and everyday life; liberalism under strain; and citizens’ lives, multiculturalism and gender. It discusses the increasing role of horizontal (bottom up) influences alongside vertical (top down) ones, not least in the context of new media, which adds the sociospatial (virtual) realm of online communications to the familiar geospatial (physical) world of politics. Implications of the extended nature of the war on terror are assessed, as well as the potential for developments that have been part of it to impact on the broader sphere of liberal international politics in the future. |
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