Terrorist Histories: Individuals and Political Violence since the 19th Century b

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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.

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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.

Author Biography

Caoimhe Nic Dháibhéid is Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Sheffield, UK, and author of Sean McBride: A Republican Life (2011).

Table of Contents

Introduction Alexander Berkman James O'Donovan Jean Garcin Amichai Paglin Gudrun Ensslin Jackie McDonald David Lane Omar Hammami Daniel McGowanConclusion

Details ISBN1138602825 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Series Political Violence Year 2018 ISBN-10 1138602825 ISBN-13 9781138602823 Format Paperback Publication Date 2018-05-08 Imprint Routledge Subtitle Individuals and Political Violence since the 19th Century Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 303.62509 Short Title Terrorist Histories Language English Author Caoimhe Nic Dhaibheid UK Release Date 2018-05-08 AU Release Date 2018-05-08 NZ Release Date 2018-05-08 Alternative 9781138675483 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education Pages 266 We've got this

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