ABSTRACT
This book shows how to use a range of critical approaches to conduct research on terrorism.
Featuring the work of researchers who have already utilized these methods to study terrorism, it includes a diverse range of critical methodological approaches – including discourse analysis, feminist, postcolonial, ethnographic, critical theory, and visual analysis of terrorism. The main objectives of the book are to assist researchers in adopting and applying various critical approaches to the study of terrorism. This goal is achieved by bringing together a number of different scholars working on the topic of terrorism from a range of non-variables-based approaches. Their individual chapters discuss explicitly the research methods used and methodological commitments made by the authors, while also illustrating the application of their particular critical perspective to the topic of terrorism. The authors of each chapter will discuss (1) why they chose their specific critical method; (2) how they justified their methodological stance; (3) how they conduct their research; (4) and, finally, an example of the research.
This book will be essential reading for students of terrorism studies and critical terrorism studies, and highly recommended for students of political violence, security studies and IR.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|16 pages
Introduction
part 2|30 pages
Critical Realism/Materialism
chapter 2|14 pages
Reading documents in their wider context
chapter 3|14 pages
Applying Marxism to critical terrorism studies
part 3|28 pages
Ethnography
chapter 5|16 pages
Ecologizing ‘terrorism’
part 4|46 pages
Discourse Analysis
part 5|13 pages
Postcolonialism/Decolonialism
chapter 9|11 pages
‘We are not the terrorists!’
part 6|27 pages
Feminism
part 7|26 pages
Visual Analysis
chapter 12|12 pages
Visualizing others
part 8|10 pages
Conclusion