Collective emotions and political violence : : Narratives of Islamist organisations in Western Europe / / Maéva Clément.

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 organisa...

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Place / Publishing House:Manchester : : Manchester University Press, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:New Approaches to Conflict Analysis
Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.) :; 9 black & white illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • List of abbreviations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note on the text
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Characterising changes in political activism
  • 1 Contextualising Islamist organisations in Western Europe (2001–2013)
  • 2 Reconstructing phases of activism
  • Part II: Exploring the performance of collective emotions
  • 3 A theory of emotionalisation in narrative form
  • 4 The romantic narrative of Western Islamist organisations
  • 5 Narrative emotionalisation and extremism
  • Conclusion
  • Appendices
  • References
  • Index