Whether to Kill : : The Cognitive Maps of Violent and Nonviolent Individuals / / Stephanie Dornschneider.

What drives some to violence against the state while others, living in the same place at the same time, turn to nonviolent resistance? And in this age of Islamist terrorism and Islamophobia, does the practice of Islam encourage violence? Structural explanations of violence fail to answer these quest...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2015
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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015]
©2016
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.) :; 37 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. A Cognitive Mapping Approach to Political Violence
  • Chapter 2. Interviewing Violent and Nonviolent Individuals
  • Chapter 3. A Short History of the Individuals' Groups
  • Chapter 4. Constructing Cognitive Maps About Political Violence
  • Chapter 5. A Computational Analysis of Violent and Nonviolent Activism
  • Chapter 6. Alternative Worlds Without Violence
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix 1
  • Appendix 2
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments