ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on concepts discussed in preceding chapters of this book. Recent books on critical terrorism studies have called for an increase in systematic research on terrorism and, especially, a focus on interpretive, critical methods. Critical terrorism scholars have thus not just analyzed fiction and TV shows, films but are now beginning to produce popular culture artefacts themselves. The goals of this book was to provides readers with a sense of the wide array of pluralistic research methods that exist to study political violence termed terrorism and also to indicate how a diverse range of scholars have used these different critical methods in their own works. Jackson, in his chapter, describes his 2014 book Confessions of a Terrorist in which the discussion between a terrorist and his interrogator is the central narrative. Analyzing social networks offers the possibility of investigating, for example, Western citizens who go to fight in the Middle East and North Africa.
