Pears, L orcid.org/0000-0002-3847-6843 (2022) Protecting Whiteness: Counter-Terrorism, and British Identity in the BBC’s Bodyguard. Millennium: journal of international studies. ISSN 0305-8298
Abstract
This article uses Bodyguard to trace the ways that whiteness is represented in counter-terrorism TV and so draw the links between whiteness, counter-terrorism and culture. It argues that Bodyguard offers a redemptive narrative for British whiteness that recuperates and rearticulates a British white identity after/through the War on Terror. As such it belongs to a later genre of counter-terrorism TV shows that move on from, but nonetheless still propagate, the discursive foundations of the ongoing War on Terror. This reading of Bodyguard is itself important, as popular culture is a site where much of the British population made and continues to make sense of their relationship to the UK during the War on Terror, forging often unspoken ideas about whiteness. It affords the opportunity to draw out the connections between whiteness and counter-terrorism, connections that need further scholarly attention to fully understand the complex relationships between security and race
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Item Type: | Article |
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Authors/Creators: | |
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2022. This is an author produced version of an article accepted for publication in Millennium: Journal of International Studies. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | counter-terrorism, television, whiteness, popular culture |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 08 Oct 2021 09:53 |
Last Modified: | 17 Mar 2023 02:15 |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/03058298211056372 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:178995 |