ABSTRACT
This chapter is a summary of arguments to understand China’s counterterrorism strategies (involving social governance of everyday public spaces) by problematizing, expounding and reinterpreting securitization theory. The chapter calls for a more ‘worldly’ perspective that reconsiders ‘human security’ in a new materialist perspective that embodies a co-constitutive ontology. It also calls for a post-Arendtian and post-Habermasian formulation of public space in understanding the interaction of social actors in the processes of counterterrorism.
