ABSTRACT
CTS has generally been linked with Richard Jackson and his colleagues (see Chapter 1) who have argued for a study of terrorism that does not privilege the state and includes methodological plurality (Jackson et al. 2009a, 2012). In the first part of this chapter, we refer to current CTS scholars’ own words in describing what they do and how they see their work as different in relation to “orthodox” TS. In the second part, we draw from the study of terrorism and terrorists in non-IR disciplines, such as anthropology, history, literature, and philosophy to indicate possible research avenues for critical research on terrorism. In the final part of the chapter, we discuss geographical and methodological plurality and end by briefly indicating how a methodologically plural CTS could take shape.
