Dynamics of political violence [electronic resource] : a process-oriented perspective on radicalization and the escalation of political conflict / edited by Lorenzo Bosi, Chares Demetriou, Stefan Malthaner.

Dynamics of Political Violence examines how violence emerges and develops from episodes of contentious politics. By considering a wide range of empirical cases, such as anarchist movements, ethno-nationalist and left-wing militancy in Europe, contemporary Islamist violence, and insurgencies in South...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Bosi, Lorenzo (Editor), Demetriou, Chares (Editor), Malthaner, Stefan (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham : Ashgate Publishing, 2014.
Series:Mobilization series on social movements, protest, and culture.
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Table of Contents:
  • Figures and tables
  • Contributors
  • A contentious politics approach to the explanation of radicalization / Lorenzo Bosi, Chares Demetriou and Stefan Malthaner
  • Dynamics of interaction between oppositional movements/groups and the state
  • The mechanisms of emotion in violent protest / Hank Johnston
  • A typology of backfire mechanisms / Lasse Lindekilde
  • Processes of radicalization and deradicalization in western European prisons (1965-1986) / Christian G. De Vito
  • Competition and conflict : dynamics of intra-movement interaction
  • Competitive escalation during protest cycles : comparing left-wing and religious conflicts / Donatella della Porta
  • Intra-movement competition and political outbidding as mechanisms of radicalization in Northern Ireland, 1968-1969 / Gianluca De Fazio
  • The limits of radicalization : escalation and restraint in the South African liberation movement / Devashree Gupta
  • Dynamics of meaning formation : frames and beyond
  • Contentious interactions, dynamics of interpretations, and radicalization : the islamization of Palestinian nationalism / Eitan Y. Alimi and Hank Johnston
  • Radical or righteous? : using gender to shape public perceptions of political violence / Jocelyn Viterna
  • From national event to transnational injustice symbol : the three phases of the Muhammad cartoon controversy / Thomas Olesen
  • Dynamics of (transnational) diffusion
  • Radicalization from outside : the role of the anarchist diaspora in coordinating armed actions in Franco's Spain / Eduardo Romanos
  • Protest diffusion and rising political violence in the Turkish '68 movement : the Arab-Israeli war, "Par's may" and the hot summer / Of 1968 Emin Alper
  • The evolution of the al-Qaeda-type terrorism : networks and beyond / Ekaterina Stepanova
  • Conclusion / Martha Crenshaw.