ABSTRACT
This chapter claims that understanding of de-radicalisation, in the UK context at least, emanates from the discourses on radicalisation. It argues that the 'Global War on Terror' and events like 7/7 created the conditions for the emergence of a new security paradigm called 'radicalisation'. The chapter aims to provide a discursive account of the major ideas and debates that lead to our current understanding of radicalisation; and situate de-radicalisation genealogically within the historical and political context in which it emerges. It elaborates in great detail how Muslim identity becomes securitised. The chapter implicitly explains the move towards the categorisation of 'Muslim' as an attempt by government to racialise and problematise Muslim identity in order to manage and curtail perceived excess, which is represented as threatening liberal democratic values, as well as disrupting the unity of the nation.
