Critical Terrorism Studies: An Introduction to Research Methods

✍ Scribed by Jacob L. Stump, Priya Dixit

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 200
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is an introduction to critical approaches to terrorism studies.

While there is a growing body of Critical Terrorism Studies (CTS) literature devoted to empirical examples and conceptual development, very little has been written about how to systematically carry out this kind of research. Critical Terrorism Studies fills this gap by addressing three key themes:

1. The position of terrorism studies and critical terrorism studies in the discipline of International Relations (IR)
2. Theoretical and methodological elaborations of critical approaches to the study of terrorism
3. Empirical illustrations of those approaches.

Drawing upon a range of engaging material, the volume reviews a series of non-variable based methodological approaches. It then goes on to provide empirical examples that illustrate how these approaches have been and can be utilized by students, teachers, and postgraduate researchers alike to critically and rigorously study terrorism.

This textbook will be of much interest to students of terrorism studies, sociology, critical security studies, and IR in general.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Critical Terrorism Studies
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
1 The Critical Terrorism Studies Project
Introduction
CTS: Arguments For and Against
Clarifying Some Key Issues
Organization of the Book
PART I The History and Transdisciplinarity of (Critical) Terrorism Studies
2 Terrorism Studies in International Relations
Introduction
A Brief History of Terrorism Studies in IR
Critical Security Studies and Critical Terrorism Studies
Conclusion
3 Introducing Critical Terrorism Studies
Introduction
The Current State of Critical Terrorism Scholarship
(Inter) Disciplining Critical Terrorism Studies
A New CTS? Methodological and Geographical Plurality
PART II Methods for Doing Critical Terrorism Studies
4 Terrorism and Critical Theory
Introduction
Historical Background
The “Critical” in Critical Theory
Key Concepts
Potential Research Strategies
5 Postcolonial and Feminist Approaches to Terrorism
Introduction
Feminism and Terrorism Studies: An Overview
Postcolonialism and Terrorism Studies: An Overview
Postcolonial Feminism and Terrorism: An Overview
Research Designs: Feminism, Postcolonialism, and Postcolonial Feminism
Conclusion: Ethical Concerns
Research Strategy
6 Ethnography of the Terrorist Subject
Introduction
Identifying a Community, Gaining Access, and Developing Rapport
Accessing Data
Inscriptions
Ethical Issues
Potential Research Design Strategy
7 Making Sense of Terrorism and Counterterrorism
Introduction
Locating a Community: Policy-makers, Policy Implementers, and the Affected
Gaining Access to a Community and Developing Rapport
Potential Research Strategies
8 Discourse Analysis and Terrorism Studies
Introduction
Defining Discourse
Traditions of Discourse: Critical and Poststructural/Foucauldian
Discourse Analysis in Terrorism Studies
Research Design: Questions, Discourses, Discursive Formations, and Identities
Conclusion: Analyzing Language in Use, Questioning Common Sense
9 Discourse Analysis of the Counterterrorist State
Introduction
The Role of the State in Terrorism Studies
A Genealogy of the Counterterrorist State
Some Research Concerns for Analyzing (Counter) Terrorism Discourses
Conclusion
Research Design
10 Terrorism and Social Network Analysis
Introduction
Basic Social Network Concepts
Accessing Data
Research Design
Software for Network Analysis
11 Conclusion
Critical Research on Terrorism
The Way(s) Forward
Bibliography
Index