Terms of engagement: examining the rhetoric of radicalisation.

This body of research critically examines and challenges popular rhetoric regarding contemporary understandings of ‘radicalisation’ in reference to Australian Muslim communities. Through the prism of the ‘War on terror’ and its adverse and disproportionate affects on Australian Muslims, Terms of engagement: examining the rhetoric of radicalisation coalesces research on Acculturative Stress and Self-determination theory, anecdotal experience, documented acts of politically-motivated violence, and the reporting of those acts of politically-motivated violence to reassess popular narratives regarding national security. The exhibition is comprised of eleven images that reflect the projection of criminality on marginalised and vilified people in a way that invites the audience to reflect on their own potential personal biases