2023.08: The Security State is Everywhere and Anywhere All At Once

Professor Nicole Nguyen

Criminology, Law, and Justice

Educational Policy Studies

University of Illinois at Chicago

Selected Publications by Professor Nguyen

• Nguyen, Nicole. 2016. A Curriculum of Fear: Homeland Security in US Public Schools. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

• Nguyen, Nicole. 2019. Suspect Communities: Anti-Muslim Racism and the Domestic War on Terror. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

• Nguyen, Nicole. In press. Terrorism on Trial: Political Violence and Abolitionist Futures. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

• Nguyen, Nicole. 2021. “Carceral Care Work: Strengthening Policing Through the Provision of Social Services”. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies 20 (6):579-96.

• Nicole Nguyen. 2017. "From School Militarization to School Securitization: National Security Finds its Place in Schools," Critical Studies in Education, 58:1, 52-68.

• Nicole Nguyen. 2014. "Education as Warfare?: Mapping Securitised Education Interventions as War on Terror Strategy," Geopolitics, 19:1, 109-139.

Writings by other authors

• Angela Davis: Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003)

  • Peculiar institution: Convict leasing (Equal Justice Initiative)

• Ruth Wilson Gilmore

  • Intercepted podcast (The Intercept), in two parts: Ruth Wilson Gilmore Makes the Case for Abolition

  • Abolition Study Guide (Abolition Journal)

• Simone Molin Friis. 2015. "‘Beyond anything we have ever seen’: beheading videos and the visibility of violence in the war against ISIS," International Affairs 91(4): 725-746.

Other topics (because I don't want them to get lost at the bottom of the page)

• Indigenous water protectors

• Pulse Nightclub

  • Noor Salman found not guilty of aiding and abetting her husband (NBC News)

  • Ms. Salman was a survivor of domestic violence (The New Yorker)

• Social Work's role in Indigenous child removal (in Canada): Morgenshtern, M., Schmid, J., & Yu, N. 2022. "Interrogating settler social work with indigenous persons in Canada," Journal of Social Work, 22(5), 1170–1188.

• I always love a good reference to Sykes-Picot

Programs/Agencies mentioned in the Episode

• JROTC = Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps

• NSA = National Security Agency

• AP = Advanced Placement

• IB = International Baccalaureate

• COINTELPRO = Counterintelligence Program

  • Documentary about the program

• Related to recent government programs around surveilling possible terrorist threats

  • Countering Violent Extremism (CVE)

    • Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Literature Review (Australian Department of Defence (2011))

    • Brennan Center for Justice (New York University School of Law)

      • Countering Violent Extremism: Myths and Fact

      • Why CVE Programs are Bad Policy

    • The role of women in CVE (Georgetown University's Institute for Women, Peace, and Security)

  • Countering Islamic Extremism

    • "Exclusive: Trump to focus counter-extremism program solely on Islam - sources" (Reuters)

    • Trump signals cuts to unpopular "Countering Extremism" programs, but worse could be coming (The Intercept)

    • Trump’s Focus on ‘Radical Islam’ Downplays Growing Risk From Right-Wing Extremism, Experts Fear (Foreign Policy)

    • Terrorists Are Always Muslim but Never White: At the Intersection of Critical Race Theory and Propaganda (Fordham Law Review)

    • On CVE, the Trump administration could have been worse (Brookings)

  • Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention Grant Program

    • Part of the Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships (CP3)

  • Black Identity Extremists (The Marshall Project)

  • Racially and Ethnically Motivated Extremists

    • Strategic Intelligence Assessment and Data on Domestic Terrorism (FBI and Homeland Security)

    • Williams, Heather J., Luke J. Matthews, Pauline Moore, Matthew A. DeNardo, James V. Marrone, Brian A. Jackson, William Marcellino, and Todd C. Helmus, A Dangerous Web: Mapping Racially and Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremism. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2022.

  • Indian constables

• Broken Windows Policing (George Mason University's Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy)

• No Child Left Behind

  • The law with foreword by President GW Bush

  • Understanding No Child Left Behind (Public School Review)

• Zero Tolerance Policies in Schools

  • Are Zero Tolerance Policies Effective in the Schools? (American Psychological Association Zero Tolerance Task Force)

  • Illinois eliminated the policy in 2016 (Associated Press)

  • The Intersection of No Child Left Behind and The School-to-Prison Pipeline: The Irony of a Progressive Act (Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law)

• Disciplinary Dean

  • I still don't really understand what a Dean of Discipline is (I should have asked Professor Nguyen), but here's a YouTube video with an interview with the new Disciplinary Dean at a high school.

  • And apparently, Black male teachers tend to be tracked into these roles.