ABSTRACT
Recent critical scholarship on terrorism has centred matters of race, class, and gender regarding how counterterrorism policies are connected to multiple systems of domination and hierarchical power relations. Since its early days, critical terrorism studies (CTS) has outlined how a militarized state is usually dominant as the main counterterrorism actor in world politics. This chapter builds upon this critical scholarship and looks towards the future, especially focusing on the question of how to deal with violence without the state. From an anarchist perspective, focusing on harms to communities means centring broader understandings of violence that emphasize community-centric understandings of threats than just from terrorism. Overall, anarchist perspectives on futures call for anti-statist, mutual-aid–based practices with a globalized orientation to prevent and counter harm to communities.
