ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the case for conceptualising de-radicalisation as the technologies of the self. The concept of the technologies of the self was formulated by Michael Foucault in a series of seminars at the University of Vermont in 1982. As a self-steering mechanism, the technologies of the self, developed in later works, comprise four critical dimensions: Ontology, Ascetics, Deontology, and Teleology. The chapter offers a modification of Foucault's concept of the technologies of the self. The chapter demonstrates that the concept of the technologies of the self is suitable in capturing the focus of de-radicalisation in the UK with individuals and not groups and networks. It also deploys the concept of the technologies of the self in an expansive sense to include the way that all individuals and not just radicalised individuals fall under the preview of de-radicalisation.
