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Terrorist Histories - Individuals and Political Violence since the 19th Century (Paperback)
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Terrorist Histories - Individuals and Political Violence since the 19th Century (Paperback)
Series: Political Violence
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This book addresses provides a series of in-depth portraits of men
and women who have been labelled 'terrorists', from the 19th, 20th
and 21st centuries. Bridging historical methodologies and
theoretical approaches to terrorism studies, it seeks to contribute
to the developing historicising of terrorism studies. This is
achieved principally through a prosopographical approach. In the
preponderance of detailed statistical and quantitative data on the
practice of terrorism and political violence, the individuals who
participate in terrorist acts are often obscured. While ideologies
and organisations have attracted much scholarly interest, less is
known of the personal trajectories into political violence,
particularly from a historical perspective. The focus on a
relatively narrow cast of high-profile terrorist 'villains', to a
large part driven by popular and media attention, results in a
somewhat skewed picture; of equal value, arguably, is a more
sustained reflection on the lives of lesser-known individuals. The
book sits at the juncture between terrorism studies, historical
biography and ethnography. It comprises case studies of ten
individuals who have engaged in political violence in the
nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries, in a number of
locations and with a variety of ideological motivations, from
Russian-inflected anarchism to Islamist extremism. Through detailed
empirical research, crucial themes in the study of terrorism and
political violence are explored: the diverse individual
radicalisation pathways, the question of disengagement and
re-engagement, various counter-terrorist and counter-insurgency
strategies adopted by governments and security forces, and the
changing nature and perception of terrorism over time. Although not
explicitly comparative, a number of themes resonate between the
case studies, which will be drawn together in the conclusion to
this book. These include the role of migration in radicalisation,
the influence of radical family heritages, the experience of
imprisonment and the narratives which individuals construct to tell
their own terrorist life-stories. It also provides an historically
grounded answer to one of the most contentious and heated debates
in recent literature on terrorism studies: 'what leads a person to
turn to political violence?' In examining the life-narratives of a
diverse range of men and women who at some point embraced violence,
this book seeks to contribute to a growing understanding of the
entire arc of a terrorist lifespan, from radicalisation to
mobilisation, to disengagement and beyond. This book will be of
much interest to students of political violence, terrorism studies,
security studies and politics in general.
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