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Collective Emotions and Political Violence: Narratives of Islamist Organisations in Western Europe

Collective Emotions and Political Violence: Narratives of Islamist Organisations in Western Europe

Clément, Maéva

Hardcover

Series: New Approaches to Conflict Analysis

CriminologyGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1526167697
ISBN13: 9781526167699
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: Jun 27 2023
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

How do collective actors move from moderate politics to (violent) extremism? Faced with high risks of repression and implosion, they need to legitimate such radical change to keep members and followers committed to collective action. Drawing on the texts, audios, and videos of five Islamist organisations in the UK and Germany in the 2000s and 2010s, the book develops a transdisciplinary theoretical framework and innovative methodological approach to explore how radical changes in activism are mediated. Clément argues that political violence has to feel right, as a collective, for an organisation and its followers to move from moderate activism to (violent) extremism. She shows that organisations mediate this change by performing collective emotions in and through narrative. The book offers a provocative and nuanced account which departs from conventional interpretations of radicalisation and reminds us of the power of emotions.

An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.

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