Politico-Ideological Mobilisation and Violence in the Arab World : : All In.

• Superior document: Routledge Studies in Criminal Behaviour Series
• Author: Ajil, Ahmed.
• Place / Publishing House: Milton : : Taylor & Francis Group,, 2022.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge Studies in Criminal Behaviour Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (286 pages)

"This book presents a study of politico-ideological mobilisation and violence by focusing on the life stories, trajectories and narratives of individuals who mobilised for causes and conflicts in the Arab World. It provides a greater understanding of the biographical, sociological, political and historic factors pertinent for their radicalisation processes. What makes individuals identify with suffering and injustice, often of others and elsewhere? Why do individuals feel the need to stand up in the first place and how does violent action become a justifiable or necessary course of action? Why and how do they disengage from violence? This book, based on interviews conducted in Lebanon, Switzerland, and Canada, answers these questions. It presents new theoretical insights about politico-ideological mobilisation and violence. By focusing on grievances and grounding analysis in the empirical reality as it is shared and narratively constructed by those who are at the heart of the phenomenon, it moves beyond the moralistic and politicised debates that characterise the field. Interviewees include non-violent and violent engagement for causes and conflicts related to the Arab World, such as sympathisers or members of groups and causes from a variety of ideological orientations, including Shiite militias, Salafi-jihadist groups, radical left-wing groups, Palestine-specific, Kurdish groups, and others such as right-wing or unspecified affiliations. By choosing individuals with different forms of political engagement, both non-violent and violent, and different ideological orientations, it helps readers to get a better grasp of how similar grievances may lead to different outcomes. In focusing on three markedly different geopolitical contexts, the book also provides a crosscontextual understanding of mobilisation for political and violent action. The interviewees also include experts and peripheral actors such as professionals, researchers, policymakers, friends, or family members. Their perspectives complement and enrich some of the findings by providing external yet in-depth 'expert knowledge'. Politico-ideological Mobilisation and Violence in the Arab World will be of great interest to criminologists, political scientists, sociologists, and other scholars interested in the study of terrorism, radicalisation and extremism. It will also appeal to journalists, policymakers, practitioners working in the field"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Introduction -- PART I: Towards a grievance-based analysis -- Chapter 1: Engaging with PIV and PIM in relation to the Arab World -- Chapter 2: Bringing grievances back in -- Chapter 3: Research protocol -- PART II: Mapping grievances -- Chapter 4: Three ideal-types of grievances -- Chapter 5: Socio-economic grievances -- Chapter 6: Ethno-racial grievances -- Chapter 7: Political grievances -- Chapter 8: Grievances, a relevant object of inquiry? -- PART III: Performing grievances -- Chapter 9: Identification : Naming the injustice -- Chapter 10 : Appropriation - Owning the injustice -- Chapter 11: Responsibilisation of self and others - addressing the injustice -- PART IV: Mobilisation, violence and disengagement -- Chapter 12: The taste of radicality: Thrill-seeking and adventurism -- Chapter 13 : The logics of violence: 'Bring back the chaos' -- Chapter 14 : The importance of context: Places, people and biographic availability -- Chapter 15: Disengaging: 'You have to give him love' -- PART V: Discussion and outlook -- Chapter 16: Towards a theory of grievance-based mobilisation -- Chapter 17 : Implications for research and policymaking -- Conclusion.