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CritiCal Methods in terrorisM studies Critical Methods in Terrorism Studies 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; and, finally, (4) 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. Priya Dixit is assistant professor at the Department of Political Science, Virginia Tech, USA. Jacob L. Stump is assistant professor of political science at Shepherd University, USA. This page intentionally left blank CritiCal Methods in terrorisM studies Edited by Priya Dixit and Jacob L. Stump First published 2016 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2016 selection and editorial material, Priya Dixit and Jacob L. Stump; individual chapters, the contributors The right of the editors to be identified as the author of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Critical methods in terrorism studies / edited by Priya Dixit and Jacob L. Stump pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Terrorism–Research–Methodology. 2. Terrorism–Study and teaching. I. Dixit, Priya. II. Stump, Jacob L. HV6431.C7625 2015 363.325–dc23 2015000982 ISBN: 978-1-138-01871-6 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-138-01872-3 (pbk) ISBN: 978-1-315-77726-9 (ebk) Typeset in Bembo by Cenveo Publishers Services Contents Contributors ix Acknowledgements xiii List of abbreviations xv Part 1 introduction 1 1 Studying terrorism and practicing criticism 3 Jacob L. Stump and Priya Dixit Part 2 Critical realism/Materialism 17 2 Reading documents in their wider context: Foucauldian and realist approaches to terrorism discourse 19 Jonathan Joseph 3 Applying Marxism to critical terrorism studies: analysis through a historical materialist lens 33 David Maher and Andrew Thomson vi Contents Part 3 ethnography 47 4 Terrorists as co-participants? Outline of a research model 49 Harmonie Toros 5 Ecologizing ‘terrorism’: attending to emergent pathways of ethnographic fieldwork, writing, and analysis 59 Yamuna Sangarasivam Part 4 discourse analysis 75 6 Critical discourse analysis 77 Richard Jackson 7 Metaphor analysis as a method in terrorism studies 91 Alexander Spencer 8 Terrorism: knowledge, power, subjectivity 108 Verena Erlenbusch Part 5 Postcolonialism/decolonialism 121 9 ‘We are not the terrorists!’ Using a reflexive postcolonial methodology in the West Bank of the Palestinian Territories 123 Caitlin Ryan Part 6 Feminism 135 10 Marginality as a feminist research method in terrorism and counter-terrorism studies 137 Katherine E. Brown 11 Talking about revolution: ex-militant testimony and conditions of ‘tell-ability’ 150 Charlotte Heath-Kelly Contents vii Part 7 Visual analysis 163 12 Visualizing others: a conversation with Cynthia Weber on films and visuality in the ‘war on terror’ 165 Priya Dixit 13 Falling bodies: confronting the iconography of terror 177 François Debrix Part 8 Conclusion 189 14 Conclusion: beyond terrorism? 191 Priya Dixit and Jacob L. Stump Index 199 This page intentionally left blank ContriButors Katherine e. Brown is a Lecturer in Defence Studies at King’s College London. Her research is focused on counter-radicalization efforts, political Islam and gen- dered human security concerns from a critical feminist position. She has published widely on these issues, more details of which can be found at: http://www.kcl. ac.uk/sspp/departments/dsd/people/dsd-a-to-z/brown.aspx. François debrix is Director of the ASPECT programme and Professor of Political Science at Virginia Tech. He is the author, among other books, of Tabloid Terror: War, Culture, and Geopolitics (2008) and Beyond Biopolitics: Theory, Violence, and Horror in World Politics (2011). Priya dixit is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Virginia Tech. Her research interests are critical security studies (especially terrorism), qualitative research methodologies (especially discourse analysis and ethnography) and critical theory in international relations. Currently, Priya is researching the role played by Gurkhas in global security, taking a historical and comparative approach. Verena erlenbusch is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Mem- phis. Her research lies at the intersection of political philosophy, the philosophy of law and continental philosophy. She is interested in Foucault’s genealogical method, especially as it relates to phenomena like terrorism, race, power and violence. Charlotte heath-Kelly is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick. Her monograph, Politics of Violence: Militancy, International Politics, Killing in the Name (2013), was shortlisted for the BISA Susan Strange book award. Recently, she has held a British Academy small
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