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Dr. Charlotte Heath-Kelly cited in the Guardian
Dr Charlotte Heath-Kelly has recently been cited in an article in The Guardian. The article, titled "Take it from an airport security agent: it's OK to laugh at toothpaste terror threats," can be viewed here:
Dr Heath-Kelly's citation can also be read below:
In 2012, the international relations scholar Charlotte Heath-Kelly that the War on Terror can be viewed as the lovechild of Franz Kafka and Monty Python as much as that of any vice president and foreign minister.
“The War on Terror undermines itself by narrating a liminal space where its claims of security appear ridiculous,” Heath-Kelly writes. “A failure to laugh consolidates the War on Terror discourse and the joke it is playing on us by taking it seriously.”