Richard McNeil-Willson is a British Research Council doctoral researcher at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, and visiting researcher at Istituto di Scienze Umane e Sociali, Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy. He specialises in researching the organisational development of ‘radical’ and anti-state social movements, protests and demonstration tactics, and critical explorations of securitised forms of governance, such as counter-terror programmes.