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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clément, Maéva, Author.

Contributor:

Clément, Maéva, Contributor.

Series:

New Approaches to Conflict Analysis

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.) : 9 black & white illustrations

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

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

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

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ISBN:

1-5261-6770-0