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<em>“This is an important and timely work, addressing an understudied aspect of radicalisation: non-radicalisation, and its successful resistance, and based on original data from a large-scale international project, DARE. The book offers a complex understanding of the concept of radicalisation.”</em> <strong>• Elizabeth Pearson</strong>, Royal Holloway University of London</p>

This landmark volume of extensive empirical research conducted across Europe explains how, and why, young people become engaged in radical(ising) milieus but also resist radicalisation into violent extremism.

Offering a critical perspective on the concept of radicalisation, this volume views it from the perspective of social actors who engage in radicalising milieus but for the most part have not crossed the threshold into violent extremism. It brings together contributions conducted as part of a cross-European (including France, Germany, the Netherlands, Greece, Russia, Turkey, the UK, and beyond) study of young people's engagement in ‘extreme right’ and ‘Islamist’ milieus.

It argues that radicalisation is best understood as a relational concept reflecting a social process rooted in relational inequalities but also shaped by interactional and situational dynamics, which not only facilitate but also constrain radicalisation.

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Acknowledgements

Introduction: Beyond Endpoints: Rethinking How and Why to Study Radicalisation
Hilary Pilkington

Part I: Cross European Perspectives on Trajectories of (Non)Radicalisation  

Chapter 1. Non-Radicalisation under a Magnifying Glass: A Cross-European ‘Milieu Perspective’ on Resistance to Islamist Radical Messaging
Mark Dechesne

Chapter 2. Situating Trajectories of ‘Extreme-Right’ (Non)Radicalisation: The Role of the Radical Milieu
Hilary Pilkington and Viggo Vestel

Part II: Sites and Sources of (Non)Radicalisation                                               

Chapter 3. What Is the Connection between Inequalities and Radicalisation? Reviewing the Evidence Base

Renata Franc, Alexandra Poli and Tomislav Pavlović

Chapter 4. Islam and Violence in Greek Society: The Stigmatisation of Muslims, the Extreme Right and Resistance to Reciprocal Radicalisation
Alexandros Sakellariou

Chapter 5. Family, Relatives and Friendship as Channels of (Non)Radicalisation in the Narratives of the Urban Second Generation of North Caucasian Youth
Sviatoslav Poliakov

Part III: Situational and Interactional Dynamics of (Non)Radicalisation                    

Chapter 6. Situational and Interactional Dynamics in Trajectories of (Non)Radicalisation: A Micro-Level Analysis of Violence in an ‘Extreme-Right’ Milieu
Hilary Pilkington

Chapter 7. Trajectories of (Non)Radicalisation in a French Prison
Bartolomeo Conti

Chapter 8. Responses to Radical(ising) Messages and Their Messengers by Young Marksmen and their Clubs: From Rejection to Normalisation
Benjamin Kerst

Conclusion: Has Radicalisation Research Reached Its Endpoint?
Hilary Pilkington

Appendix: Overview of Milieus Studied

Index

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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781805390084
Publisert
2023-11-10
Utgiver
Vendor
Berghahn Books
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
324

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Biographical note

Hilary Pilkington is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. She is author of Loud and Proud: Passion and Politics in the English Defence League (Manchester University Press, 2016), and was awarded the BBC Thinking Allowed Ethnography Award in 2017. She has coordinated major international research projects including the H2020 DARE (Dialogue about Radicalisation and Equality) project