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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2021Counter-radicalisation policy and the securing of British identity
by Thomas Martin
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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2025Pink-pilled
Women and the far right
by Lois Shearing
A daring investigation that explores how women are targeted and recruited by the far right. As the far right has gained popularity and acceptance around the world, its ranks have swelled with an unlikely category of members: women. Women play significant roles in far-right movements, acting as propagandists, prizes to be won and mother-warriors of the nation. But up to now their activities have been largely overlooked. In Pink-pilled, Lois Shearing provides a cutting-edge account of how the far right has used the internet to recruit women, while shedding light on what life is like for women within these movements, including their experiences of misogyny and violence. Understanding how and why women join movements that explicitly aim to restrict their autonomy is essential if we want to fight back. Pink-pilled offers key insights for countering women's radicalisation and building communities resistant to far-right thought.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2016The European Union's fight against terrorism
by Christopher Baker-Beall
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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2019Radicalisation
A Marginal Phenomenon or a Mirror to Society?
by Noel Clycq, Christiane Timmerman, Dirk Vanheule, Rut Van Caudenberg, Stiene Ravn (eds)
Vital insights into the complex nature of the concept of radicalisationRadicalisation is a topical and a much-discussed concept in current European societies. Its use in policy and societal discourses, such as media coverage and educational contexts, is very sensitive. This thought-provoking collection of essays critically addresses the topic of radicalisation from different angles, combining discipline-specific insights from the fields of sociology, philosophy, history, religious studies, and media studies, with new empirical data. The authors step away from readily available explanations and rethink the notion of ‘the radical’. Rather than merely focusing on individuals or ideologies, they advocate for a contextual perspective that allows to consider the complex interaction between individuals, groups, and institutions, both at a national and international level. Radicalisation: A Marginal Phenomenon, or a Mirror to Society? provides the reader not only with much-needed knowledge of the complex nature of the concept of radicalisation, but also offers insights into the various ways radicalisation processes can be triggered, prevented, or addressed.This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).ContributorsContributors: Rik Coolsaet (Ghent University), Stiene Ravn (University of Antwerp), Tom Sauer (University of Antwerp), Jessika Soors (KU Leuven), François Levrau (University of Antwerp), Janiv Stamberger (University of Antwerp), Ward Nouwen (University of Antwerp), Rut Van Caudenberg (University of Antwerp), Noel Clycq (University of Antwerp), Thomas Frissen (KU Leuven), Kevin Smets (Vrije Universiteit Brussel / University of Antwerp), Leen d’Haenens (KU Leuven), Kristof Verfaillie (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Sofie De Kimpe (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Marc Cools (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Karel Van Nieuwenhuyse (KU Leuven)
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EducationSeptember 2015Radicalisation and Terrorism
A Teacher's Handbook for Addressing Extremism
by Alison Jamieson and Jane Flint
As the increasingly frequent press stories of school children being radicalised show, teachers urgently need a resource that enables them to recognise, debate and disrupt extremist narratives within the context of the classroom. This practical handbook provides a reliable and objective resource to enable lower secondary school teachers to tackle the complex subjects of terrorism and radicalisation with confidence. It sets political violence within a broad context of perceived injustice, using familiar emotions of anger and disappointment to introduce the notion of grievance, a precursor of all forms of terrorism. The text covers issues of citizenship, human rights and respect, civil and political engagement, the nature of identity and how we identify with others. It examines different forms of violence from bullying to the most recent examples of 21st century terrorism. Historical precedent is used to illustrate a variety of contexts in which political violence has occurred, from Assassins through Suffragettes to militancy in South Africa, Europe, the Middle East and Oceania. The handbook considers the causes and consequences of terrorism and helps teachers to explain to children what terrorists do and why they do it; how to differentiate between the reasons, goals and methods of terrorists; why the media and terrorism are inextricably linked; what makes terrorism start and, crucially, what factors bring a cycle of terrorism to an end. Pupils are invited to reflect on the destructiveness of terrorism for both victims and aggressors and, taking Northern Ireland and South Africa as examples, to consider the process of reconciliation. The handbook tackles the problem of defining “terrorism”, a term which is value-laden and subjective, and which has eluded international consensus. Pupils are encouraged to explore the reasons for this, and to debate fact and bias through an examination of the role of the media in reporting terrorism. The role of social media within the process of radicalisation is also studied. Fictional storylines and classroom activities are provided to stimulate creative thinking and interactive participation.
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Films, cinemaReversing the Lens
Ethnicity, Race, Gender, & Sexuality Through Film
by Jun Xing (Editor) , Lane R Hirabayashi (Editor)
This book brings together noted scholars in history, anthropology, sociology, ethnic studies and film studies to promote film as a powerful classroom tool that can be used to foster cross-cultural communication with respect to race and ethnicity. Through such films as: Skin Deep; Slaying the Dragon; and Mississippi Masala; contributors demonstrate why and how visual media help delineate various forms of critical visual thinking and examine how radicalisation is either sedimented or contested in the popular imagination. Not limited to classroom use, the book is relevant to anyone who is curious about how video and film can be utilised to expose race as a social construction that -- in dialogue with other potential forms of difference -- is subject to political contestation.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2020Right-Wing Ego-Shooter
From Online Agitation to Livestream Assassination
by Jean-Philipp Baeck, Andreas Speit (ed.)
A locked wooden door prevented a massacre. On 9th October 2019, a right-wing extremist planned to murder Jews that had gathered in a synagogue. He shot at the door with self-made weapons and threw improvised explosive devices. He had obtained the instructions for these weapons online. Like-minded people could watch online how he executed two people nearby. Using a helmet camera, he broadcasted the murders to an online platform for videos of computer games. With his action he imitated a right-wing ego-shooter from Christchurch, New Zealand, who had broadcasted himself killing 51 people live on Facebook. What drives those men to bring the violence from their computer screens into reality? The authors follow the traces of the assassins and describe the special ways of online radicalisation. They explain the backgrounds and motives of these “lone wolfs”, who foster their toxic masculinity, misogyny and antisemitism in right-wing online communities. The book reveals insights to a disturbing world that is unknown to many people.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2018Islamische Zuwanderung und ihre Folgen
Der neue Antisemitismus, Sicherheit und die »neuen Deutschen«
by Tibi, Bassam
Immigration to Germany has reached a new dimension since the opening of the border in September 2015. Muslim migrants from states in the process of dissolution are predominantly coming into society as "new Germans". As Bassam Tibi points out, the resulting extreme challenges with regard to successful integration are something quite different from displaying love for foreigners, combined with accommodation, alimony, and language courses. Integration requires above all the offer of an inclusive citizen identity of the host country and the acceptance of this offer by newcomers - this is the only way to create a sense of belonging and identification with the host society and its values. But at this essential point at the latest, German migration policy fails completely and with catastrophic consequences. Many Muslims living here have an acute identity problem - one of the main causes of religious radicalisation and rejection of the host society, including an openly hostile attitude towards it. Bassam Tibi, himself a Syrian migrant, analyses the situation in Germany and in the countries of origin sharply and without ideological blinkers - and emphatically warns of the dangers associated with the failure of the large-scale experiment on immigration that is currently taking place. In this updated and expanded new edition of his standard work, Tibi pays special attention to a phenomenon that has received far too little attention: the new anti-Semitism in Germany. *** Die Zuwanderung nach Deutschland hat seit der Grenzöffnung im September 2015 eine neue Dimension erreicht. Aus in Auflösung begriffenen Staaten kommen überwiegend muslimische Migranten als »neue Deutsche« in die Gesellschaft derer, »die schon länger hier leben« (Angela Merkel). Die sich hieraus ergebenden extremen Herausforderungen mit Blick auf eine erfolgreiche Integration sind, wie Bassam Tibi aufzeigt, etwas ganz anderes als ein Zurschaustellen von Fremdenliebe, verbunden mit Unterbringung, Alimentierung und Sprachkursen. Integration erfordert vor allem das Angebot einer inklusiven Bürgeridentität des Aufnahmelandes und einer Annahme dieses Angebots durch Neuankömmlinge – nur so kann sich ein Zugehörigkeitsgefühl und eine Identifizierung mit der Aufnahmegesellschaft und ihren Werten einstellen. Doch spätestens an diesem essentiellen Punkt versagt die deutsche Migrationspolitik vollständig und mit katastrophalen Konsequenzen. Viele hier lebende Muslime haben ein akutes Identitätsproblem – eine der Hauptursachen für religiöse Radikalisierung und Ablehnung der Aufnahmegesellschaft bis hin zu einer offen feindseligen Haltung ihr gegenüber. Bassam Tibi, selbst syrischer Migrant, analysiert scharfsinnig und ohne ideologische Scheuklappen die Situation in Deutschland sowie in den Herkunftsstaaten – und warnt nachdrücklich vor den Gefahren, die mit einem Scheitern des aktuell stattfindenden Großexperiments Zuwanderung verbunden sind. In der vorliegenden, aktualisierten und erneut erweiterten Neuauflage seines Standard-Werks legt Tibi ein besonderes Augenmerk auf ein hierbei viel zu wenig beachtetes Phänomen: Den neuen Antisemitismus in Deutschland.
