Sociology of Terrorism

<p>This is the first terrorism textbook based on sociological research. It adopts an innovative framework that draws together historical and modern local and global and social processes for a range of individuals groups and societies. Individual behaviour and dispositions are embedded within these broader relationships and activities allowing a more holistic account of terrorism to emerge. In addition the shifting forms of identification and interwoven attitudes to political violence are discussed in order to explain the emergence continuation and end of ‘terrorist’ careers.</p><p>The book draws on examples from across the discursive spectrum including religious ‘red’ and ‘black’ racialist nationalist and trans-national. It also spans territories as diverse as Chechnya Germany Italy Japan Northern Ireland Pakistan Palestine Saudi Arabia South America the UK and the US. </p>