Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book provides an overview of research which scrutinises popular television shows, constructions of "cyber-terrorism", "hyperreal" narratives regarding Libyan death squads and objects like the "Counterterrorism calendar" in creating conditions for the perpetration for structural violence. It focused on the human elements of policy-relevance, highlighting the lack of attention paid to victims of terrorism, both in Critical Terrorism Studies and beyond. The book examines how, then, the medium of television has become an integral forum through which subjects make sense of terrorism in a post-9/11 context. It focuses on the popular TV show Homeland. The book explores how audience receives representations of terrorism, Muslims and the CIA, for example, through the use of focus group interviews. It demonstrates that Muslims do not have the same space as non-Muslims in which to articulate resistance to dominant discourses of terrorism.