Jeroen Gunning

This volume aims to ‘bring the state back into terrorism studies ’ and fill the notable gap that currently exists in our understanding of the ways in which states employ terrorism as a political strategy of internal governance or foreign policy. Within this broader context, the volume has a number of specific aims. First, it aims to make the argument that state terrorism is a valid and analytically useful concept which can do much to illuminate our understanding of state repression and governance, and illustrate the varieties of actors, modalities, aims, forms, and outcomes of this form of contemporary political violence. Second, by discussing a rich and diverse set of empirical case studies of contemporary state terrorism this volume explores and tests theoretical notions, generates new ques-tions and provides a resource for further research. Third, it contributes to a critical- normative approach to the study of terrorism more broadly and chal-lenges dominant approaches and perspe...

Abstract Who do city residents turn to in everyday security incidents? Why do some go to the police in certain locations, others to armed nonstate actors or kinship networks? We explore the ways in which residents and security actors – state and nonstate – negotiate everyday (in)security in contested urban spaces with multiple security actors. We consider how hybrid security assemblages are shaped by physical and social space and how everyday security practices shape space. We use Beirut's Southern Suburbs (Dahiyeh) as a site of theorisation, bringing local vernacular experiences into dialogue with Bourdieu's concepts of capital, habitus, doxa and field to develop a spatially dynamic analytical framework. Using this framework, we map security actors' different types and sizes of capital and how this capital is affected by residents' habitus and doxa within the everyday security field. We introduce the notion of ‘translocal habitus’ to capture the impact of families' origins outside Dahiyeh on everyday security dynamics. The framework we develop contributes to the spatialisation, vernacularisation and pluralisation of everyday security studies, furthers the spatialisation of Bourdieu and adds to the literature on hybrid forms of governance. Our analysis is based on extensive fieldwork, including over 150 interviews and ‘street chats’ with residents and security actors in and around Dahiyeh.

... The political process model critiqued both the socio-psychological and resource mobilisation frameworks, on ... An SMT framework both encourages researchers to focus on these aspects, and offers ... largely silent on the impact of state repression on suicide bombing cam-paigns ...

Publikationsansicht. 32099899. Re-thinking Western constructs of Islamism : pluralism, democracy and the theory and praxis of the Islamic movement in the Gaza Strip. (2000). Gunning, Jeroen. Abstract. Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Durham, 2000. Details der Publikation. ...

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:-Introduction: The Case for Critical Terrorism Studies Marie Breen Smyth, Jeroen Gunning and Richard Jackson Part 1: The Contemporary Study of Polictical Terrorism 1. Mapping Terrorism Studies after 9/11: An Academic Field of Old ...