An operation initiated by the United States government under George W. Bush, using legal, military, personal, and political actions to limit the spread of terrorism after 9/11. Graham (2006, Int. J. Urb. & Reg. Res. 30, 2) describes the reworking of US cities in order to construct them as ‘homeland’ spaces, re-engineered in the interests of ‘national security’, while Dalby (2007, Geopolitics 12, 4) outlines the ‘dichotomous mapping of the world into civilized core and dangerous periphery’. Thobani (2007) Feminist Theory 8, 2 examines the practices that constitute whiteness, triggered by the war on terror, and Macrae and Harmer (2003) Overseas Dev. Inst. provide a clear review of the issues. See Amore (2009) Antipode 41, 1, 49.