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An exploration of how political violence is constructed, this book
presents the life stories of individuals once committed to
political transformation through violent means in Portugal.
Challenging simplistic conceptualisations about the actors of
violence, this book examines issues of temporality, gender and
interpersonal dynamics in the study of political violence. It is
the first comprehensive case study of political violence in
Portugal, based on the perspectives of former militants. These are
individuals from different political spheres who became convinced
that they could not be mere spectators of the circumstances of
their times. For them, the only viable way of making a difference
was through violent acts. Applying the Dialogical Self Theory to
trace the identity positions underpinning their narratives, this
book not only sheds light on radicalisation and deradicalisation
processes at the individual level, but also on the meso- and
macro-level contexts that instigate engagement with and encourage
disengagement from armed organisations. This book will be of
interest to students and scholars of critical terrorism studies,
political violence, European history and security studies more
generally.
Narrative, Political Violence and Social Change is a call for
engaging actively and critically with the ontological,
epistemological, and methodological implications of narrative in
the study of political violence and terrorism. Building on a basic
framework of three modes of narrative – as lens, as data, and as
tool – the chapters in this book demonstrate how the study of
political violence and terrorism benefits from narrative inquiry as
an interdisciplinary endeavour, in particular as regards diverging
perceptions of social reality, the meanings of belonging, and the
human drive for change. They showcase the substantial advances that
scholars have made in this field to date and identify promising
avenues for further research. The chapters in this book were
originally published as a special issue of the journal Studies in
Conflict & Terrorism.
This volume is a timely contribution to the current debates and
potential efforts to study and counter the phenomena of extreme
right violence in a period when the rise of right-wing extremism is
being witnessed across the globe. Against this backdrop, the
violent radicalisation and extremism of individuals and groups
belonging to the extreme right threaten to undermine and
destabilize societies and democratic orders, leaving a research gap
that has only started to be filled in recent years, but that is
still quite wide when it comes to counter-terrorism approaches to
extreme right violence. Learning from the past, and trying to avoid
similar mistakes, this volume creates a much-needed space for open,
honest, and ethical debate around countering extreme right
violence, answering social and political calls to debate how to
counter this kind of violence. This volume brings together a group
of interdisciplinary scholars to contribute to national and
international, academic and policy debates about countering extreme
right violence from a critical perspective. Volume II focuses
particularly on exploring how extreme right violence has been
approached in different spatial and temporal contexts, examining
how the criminal justice system has dealt with the threat of and
actual violence perpetrated by the extreme right, deconstructing
current counter-terrorism approaches from feminist and gender
perspectives, and formulating a critical approach to countering
extreme right violence. It will be of great interest to all
students of terrorism studies, security studies, international
relations, and political science in general. The chapters in this
book were originally published in Critical Studies on Terrorism.
This volume is a timely contribution to the current debates and
potential efforts to study and counter the phenomena of extreme
right violence in a period when the rise of right-wing extremism is
being witnessed across the globe. Against this backdrop, the
violent radicalisation and extremism of individuals and groups
belonging to the extreme right threaten to undermine and
destabilize societies and democratic orders, leaving a research gap
that has only started to be filled in recent years, but that is
still quite wide when it comes to counter-terrorism approaches to
extreme right violence. Learning from the past, and trying to avoid
similar mistakes, this volume creates a much-needed space for open,
honest, and ethical debate around countering extreme right
violence, answering social and political calls to debate how to
counter this kind of violence. This volume brings together a group
of interdisciplinary scholars to contribute to national and
international, academic and policy debates about countering extreme
right violence from a critical perspective. Volume I focuses
particularly on exploring how extreme right violence has been
approached, narrated and made sense of in different spatial and
temporal contexts, examining how political actors such as media and
politicians portray the threat of and actual violence perpetrated
by the extreme right, deconstructing current counter-terrorism
approaches, and formulating a critical approach to researching
extreme right violence. It will be of great interest to all
students of terrorism studies, security studies, international
relations, and political science in general. The chapters in this
book were originally published in Critical Studies on Terrorism.
Bringing together established and emerging voices in Critical
Terrorism Studies (CTS), this book offers fresh and dynamic
reflections on CTS and envisages possible lines of future research
and ways forward. The volume is structured in three sections. The
first opens a space for intellectual engagement with other
disciplines such as Sociology, Peace Studies, Critical Pedagogy,
and Indigenous Studies. The second looks at topics that have not
received much attention within CTS, such as silences in discourses,
the politics of counting dead bodies, temporality or anarchism. The
third presents ways of 'performing' CTS through research-based
artistic performances and productions. Overall, the volume opens up
a space for broadening and pushing CTS forward in new and
imaginative ways. This book will be of interest to students of
critical terrorism studies, critical security studies, sociology
and International Relations in general.
Narrative, Political Violence and Social Change is a call for
engaging actively and critically with the ontological,
epistemological, and methodological implications of narrative in
the study of political violence and terrorism. Building on a basic
framework of three modes of narrative - as lens, as data, and as
tool - the chapters in this book demonstrate how the study of
political violence and terrorism benefits from narrative inquiry as
an interdisciplinary endeavour, in particular as regards diverging
perceptions of social reality, the meanings of belonging, and the
human drive for change. They showcase the substantial advances that
scholars have made in this field to date and identify promising
avenues for further research. The chapters in this book were
originally published as a special issue of the journal Studies in
Conflict & Terrorism.
An exploration of how political violence is constructed, this book
presents the life stories of individuals once committed to
political transformation through violent means in Portugal.
Challenging simplistic conceptualisations about the actors of
violence, this book examines issues of temporality, gender and
interpersonal dynamics in the study of political violence. It is
the first comprehensive case study of political violence in
Portugal, based on the perspectives of former militants. These are
individuals from different political spheres who became convinced
that they could not be mere spectators of the circumstances of
their times. For them, the only viable way of making a difference
was through violent acts. Applying the Dialogical Self Theory to
trace the identity positions underpinning their narratives, this
book not only sheds light on radicalisation and deradicalisation
processes at the individual level, but also on the meso- and
macro-level contexts that instigate engagement with and encourage
disengagement from armed organisations. This book will be of
interest to students and scholars of critical terrorism studies,
political violence, European history and security studies more
generally.
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