{"title":"“At least I tried, God damnit” and “Even a drop in the ocean is still more than nothing”: In their own words, what motivates people to work in P/CVE?","authors":"L. Schlegel","doi":"10.1080/17539153.2022.2089399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17539153.2022.2089399","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The P/CVE sector is a growing and increasingly professionalised field in many countries affected by “homegrown” extremism. While opinions of individuals working and researching in the P/CVE sector have informed many studies, little is known about these professionals as people. This is problematic, because P/CVE employees are not black boxes; they have personal motivations, opinions, and experiences, which potentially influence their work and therefore the development and implementation of prevention and counter-extremism efforts. The present study offers a preliminary glimpse into P/CVE professionals as individuals by reporting the analysis of 27 experts interviews with academics and practitioners working in P/CVE, who describe their personal motivation for working in this particular field. These motivational factors range from childhood experiences to personal interest in the topic, anger, the wish for a positive personal impact, the desire to use research to improve social ills, and personalised responsibility to protect democracy","PeriodicalId":46483,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies on Terrorism","volume":"35 1","pages":"945 - 962"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84882959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Decapitation and paramilitary feuds in Northern Ireland, 1969-1992","authors":"A. Sanders","doi":"10.1080/09603123.2022.2084275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09603123.2022.2084275","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article seeks to draw together two major themes in studies of political violence, namely, decapitation and factionalism, using examples from the Irish republican paramilitary groups that emerged during the period of conflict in Northern Ireland commonly known as the Troubles. I seek to complement the extensive literature across these areas by offering analysis of the behaviour of Irish republican paramilitary groups during internecine feuds that took place between the 1969 split in the Irish Republican Army and the 1992 Provisional Irish Republican Army action against the Irish People’s Liberation Organisation. By comparing three inter-group feuds, this study will demonstrate the prevalence of decapitation attacks in the aftermath of factional splits and the serious consequences that they have for groups which suffer a decapitation attack.","PeriodicalId":46483,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies on Terrorism","volume":"37 1","pages":"805 - 822"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80992190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Normativity in analysing extremism and fundamentalism: a reply to Quassim Cassam’s Extremism","authors":"R. Peels","doi":"10.1080/17539153.2022.2082097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17539153.2022.2082097","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article reflects on the role of normativity in defining extremism and evaluates Cassam’s understanding of fundamentalism.","PeriodicalId":46483,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies on Terrorism","volume":"54 1","pages":"1038 - 1043"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82054645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reply to Tahir Abbas, Naomi Kloosterboer, and Rik Peels","authors":"Quassim Cassam","doi":"10.1080/17539153.2022.2082093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17539153.2022.2082093","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT A reply to Tahir Abbas, Naomi Kloosterboer, and Rik Peels, focusing on the issues of radicalisation, normativity, and fundamentalism","PeriodicalId":46483,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies on Terrorism","volume":"20 1","pages":"1044 - 1049"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73888735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Is this terrorism?” The Italian media and the Macerata shooting","authors":"M. Colombo, F. Quassoli","doi":"10.1080/17539153.2022.2049946","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17539153.2022.2049946","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT “Media events” and, even more, “contested media events” offer a unique opportunity to analyse how specific interpretative frames come to dominate public debate within a hybrid media system through complex transmedia processes. In this article, we look into how mainstream media and, in particular, daily newspapers, reported on and re-contextualised the fierce debate concerning the “Macerata shooting” that had exploded on Twitter and contributed to obscure the interpretative frame initially proposed by the writer Roberto Saviano, qualifying it as an act of “terrorism”. An analysis conducted on a corpus of 143 articles shows that newspapers helped to both spread a mitigated and reassuring picture of the attack, and reaffirm the hegemonic vision of terrorism that sees terrorists, by definition, as alien to the community of victims.","PeriodicalId":46483,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies on Terrorism","volume":"27 1","pages":"759 - 781"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89818259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book review of battle for allegiance: governments, terrorist groups, and constituencies in conflict","authors":"Jack V. Kalpakian, Georgi Asatryan","doi":"10.1080/17539153.2022.2062099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17539153.2022.2062099","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46483,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies on Terrorism","volume":"1 1","pages":"515 - 516"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84513640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review of: Terrorism, Violent Radicalisation and Mental Health","authors":"Nichola E. J. Rew","doi":"10.1080/17539153.2022.2062100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17539153.2022.2062100","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46483,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies on Terrorism","volume":"23 1","pages":"517 - 519"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84910742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book review of Terror, Love and Brainwashing: Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems, 2nd ed","authors":"Linnea Vidger","doi":"10.1080/17539153.2022.2062101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17539153.2022.2062101","url":null,"abstract":"In Terror, Love and Brainwashing: Attachment in Cults and Totalitarian Systems , Alexandra Stein draws on her own experience living in a cult, interviews with other former cult followers, and psychological theories of attachment to explain why individuals fall under the complete control of totalist systems. Mapping out the steps of totalist control from recruitment to indoctrination, Stein sheds light on how average individuals can be radically manipulated by extreme groups to completely submit their lives and even perform acts of violence. In the second edition of this book, Stein builds on her research by including recent insights on political extremism and totalitarian states. She explores a range of totalist systems, from political cults like the Newman Tendency, to totalitarian regimes, such as Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge and Mao’s Communist Party in China. While these totalist systems operate at different scales, Stein points out their commonalities in brainwashing and isolating subjects. Stein","PeriodicalId":46483,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies on Terrorism","volume":"18 1","pages":"520 - 521"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84539982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}