ABSTRACT
This chapter is based on my process as an artist and my research into several examples and cases from a critical terrorism studies (CTS) perspective. It is a non-academic understanding of a variety of circumstances from which I have created artworks informed by academic articles on cases in the UK and, sometimes, around the world. The chapter will reflect on such cases and their problematic assumptions based on uncorroborated evidence, exploring how I see their impact on people on the receiving end of counterterrorism legislation. Thus, in my work and in this chapter, I draw on cases in which counterterror processes have not worked, have been misused, and have made the conditions for people worse, essentially terrorising those wrongly accused. I will highlight how counterterrorism’s processes can be scrutinised through a combination of art and academic research. My inquiry will reflect on how some counterterrorism measures represent processes of self-fulfilling prophecies of worst-case scenarios and how those processes and objects they involve become charged with misunderstanding, paranoia, misinformation, and racism.
