Britain and Terrorism A Sociological Investigation

In keeping with the figurational tradition, Dunning examines the relationships between broad, macro-level processes and processes at the level of individual psyches, showing that terrorism is not merely a ‘thing’ done to a group, but part of a complex web of interdependent relations. Michael Dunning...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dunning, Michael
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2021, 2021
Edition:1st ed. 2021
Series:Palgrave Studies on Norbert Elias
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Research on Terrorism as Part of the Terrorism Problem.-Section 1: The Sociogenesis of Terrorism in Nineteenth Century Britain
  • Chapter 1: The Development of the Concept of Terrorism in Antithesis to the Concept of Civilisation
  • Chapter 2: The Sociogenesis of Terrorism in Nineteenth Century Britain in Relation to Ireland
  • Chapter 3: Trades Unions, Political Reformers, Revolutionary Europe and Terrorism
  • Section 2: The Sociogenesis of Terrorism in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Britain
  • Chapter 4: The World Wars and the Cold War – Terrorism and Inter-State Violence
  • Chapter 5: The Sociogenesis of Terrorism, the End of the British Empire, the Middle East and International Terrorism
  • Chapter 6: The Fault-Lines in the British Monopoly of Violence and ‘Domestic’ Terrorism
  • Section 3: Micro-Level Processes and Jihadist Terrorism in Britain.
  • Chapter 7: Case Study: the 7/7 Bombers.
  • Chapter 8: Case Study: British Jihadis in Syria and Iraq
  • Conclusion