This inter-disciplinary edited volume critically examines the dynamics of the War on Terror, focusing on the theme of the politics of response.

Foreword Marie Fatayi-Williams Introduction: London in a Time of Terror Angharad Closs Stephens and Nick Vaughan-Williams Part I Cartographies of Response 1. Missing Persons: London, July 2005 Jenny Edkins 2. Security, Multiculturalism, and the Cosmopolis Vivienne Jabri 3. 7 Million Londoners; 1 London: National and Urban Ideas of Community Angharad Closs Stephens Part II War on Terror/War on Response 4. Foreign' Terror? Resisting/Responding to the London Bombings Dan Bulley 5. The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes: New Border Politics? Nick Vaughan-Williams 6. Terror Time in Toronto: A Response to the Response to the Arrests of the Toronto 17 Patricia Molloy 7. Response Before the Event: On Forgetting the War on Terror Louise Amoore Part III Possibilities of Response? 8. Cosmpolitanism vs. Terrorism? Discourses of Ethical Possibility Before, and After 7/7 James Brassett 9. Finding meaning in meaningless times: emotional responses to terror threats in London? Chris Rumford 10. The Ontopolitics of Response: Difference, Alterity and the Face Madeleine Fagan 11. July 2, July 7 and Metaphysics Costas Douzinas