Constructions of terrorism : an interdisciplinary approach to research and policy /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Other Authors: Stohl, Michael, 1947- (Editor, Contributor), Burchill, Richard (Editor, Contributor), Englund, Scott (Editor, Contributor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, Calfornia : University of California Press, [2017]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: constructions of terrorism / Michael Stohl, Scott Englund, and Richard Burchill
  • Can terrorism be defined? / Lisa Stampnitzky
  • Misoverestimating terrorism / John Mueller and Mark G. Stewart
  • Terrorism as tactic / David H. Schanzer
  • The construction of state terrorism / Ruth Blakeley
  • Killing before an audience: terrorism as performance violence / Mark Juergensmeyer
  • Constructing terrorism: from fear and coercion to anger and jujitsu politics / Clark McCauley
  • Framing terrorism: the communicative constitution of the terrorist actor / Benjamin K. Smith, Scott Englund, Andrea Figueroa-Caballero, and Michael Stohl
  • Some thoughts on constructions of terrorism and the framing of the terrorist threat in the UK / Anthony Richards
  • Contradictions in the terrorist discourse and constraints on the political imagination of violence / Richard Falk
  • Legal constructions of terrorism / Richard Burchill
  • Do different definitions of terrorism alter its causal story? / Rachel Levin and Victor Asal
  • Analyzing pathways of lone-actor radicalization: a relational approach / Stefan Malthaner and Lasse Lindekilde
  • Constructing cultures of martyrdom across religions, time, and space / Mia Bloom
  • Introducing Government Actions in Terror Environments (GATE) dataset / Laura Dugan and Erica Chenoweth
  • The world vs. Daesh: constructing a contemporary terrorist threat / Scott Englund and Michael Stohl
  • Conclusion, understanding how terrorism is constructed / Michael Stohl, Scott Englund, and Richard Burchill.