Disentangling Jihad, Political Violence and Media

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

Av Simone Pfeifer, Christoph Günther, Robert Dörre, University of Cologne) Pfeifer, Simone (Postdoctoral Researcher at the Research Training Group anschließen-ausschließen: Cultural Dynamics Beyond Globalized Networks, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz) Gunther, Christoph (Principal Investigator of Jihadism on the Internet: Images and Videos, their Dissemination and Appropriation in the Department of Anthropology and African Studies, Ruhr University Bochum) Dorre, Robert (Postdoctoral Researcher in the field of media cultural studies at the department for Theory, Aesthetics and Politics of Digital Media

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Explores how Jihad, political violence and audio-visual media are entangled in particular ways as discursive formationsFosters critical perspectives on the invocation of a narrow understanding of jihad and political violence in different social contextsPoints to the operation of media and aesthetic means to articulate or defy notions of jihad in the context of political violenceComprises 16 case studies on forms of knowledge production, aesthetic manifestations, socio-political enactments, and archival practices that shape the entanglement of jihad, political violence, and mediaPresents empirically-grounded research from the perspective of Anthropology, Art History, Cultural Studies, Islamic Studies, Media Studies, and Political ScienceAdvances reflections on knowledge production and ethical challenges of research in this fieldThe entanglement of Jihad, Political Violence, and Media has determined the lives of Muslims in Europe and the US over the past 20 years. This book unravels the nexus of these elements, to critically examine how their conjunction is perpetuated, reproduced, or disputed. In 16 case studies, the contributors critically reflect on the identification of jihad with political violence, address the academic, legal, political and broader public production of knowledge on this topic, examine the aesthetic formations involved in the mediation and reaffirmation of this narrow understanding, explore the experiential worlds of people whose ideas and actions are labelled as and affected by notions of violent jihad, and illuminate the institutional and media contexts (e.g. of archives) in which an entanglement of jihad and political violence takes effect, with profound consequences.This volume decentres dominant discourses on so-called jihadist actors and deradicalization contexts to offer more nuanced understandings of the political and socio-cultural contexts.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-10-17
Mått156 x 234 x 33 mm
Vikt814 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor448
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781399523790

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Simone Pfeifer is a postdoctoral researcher at the Research Training Group anschließen-ausschließen: Cultural Dynamics Beyond Globalized Networks at the University of Cologne. She is a social and cultural anthropologist with a focus on visual, digital and media anthropology. Her research interests include transnational migration and mobility in postmigrant contexts, political violence, religion, and artistic practices, and ethics in (digital) ethnographic research. Her recent publications include Social Media im transnationalen Alltag (2020, transcript), the co-edited volume Jihadi Audiovisuality and its Entanglements: Meanings, Aesthetics, Appropriations (Edinburgh University Press, 2020) with Christoph Günther, and the co-edited special section Dark Ethnographies? (ZfE 2021: 146). Christoph Günther is the Principal Investigator of the junior research group Jihadism on the Internet: Images and Videos, their Dissemination and Appropriation in the Department of Anthropology and African Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. Having a background in Islamic Studies, his research interests include religio-political movements in the modern Middle East, visual cultures and iconography, and the sociology of religion. He is the author of Entrepreneurs of Identity: The Islamic State’s Symbolic Repertoire (Berghahn Books, 2022) and has co-edited Jihadi Audiovisuality and its Entanglements: Meanings, Aesthetics, Appropriations (Edinburgh University Press, 2020) with Simone Pfeifer. Robert Dörre is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the field of media cultural studies at the department for Theory, Aesthetics and Politics of Digital Media at Ruhr University Bochum. His research interests comprise digital culture and social media, media relations between visibility and violence, affect theory, media as intervening agencies and VR films. In his PhD thesis, he addressed forms of audiovisual self-documentation in social media. The resulting book was published by Büchner-Verlag in 2022 under the title Mediale Entwürfe des Selbst.

List of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Foreword by Salman Sayyid Introduction: Disentangling Jihad, Political Violence and Media Christoph Günther, Robert Dörre and Simone PfeiferPart I Notions of Jihad and The Production of Knowledge1 The Portrayal of Jihadi-Salafism: The Role of Knowledge Production in Fabricating a Global EnemyJaan S. Islam2 Jihad Goes to Court: The Invocation of Islamic Idioms in Terrorism Prosecutions Nicole Nguyen3 ‘Look a certain way in order to resist’: An Analysis of German Short Videos against Islamism Sindyan Qasem4 Criminalising Critical Scholarship: Austria’s Intelligence Service and Islamophobia Studies Farid Hafez5 Will the Real Jihadi Please Stand Up? On ‘Jihadism’ as a Conceptual WeaponDarryl LiPart II Audiovisual Mediations and Formations of Jihad6 Terrorism Education in ISIS’s Use of Children’s Mobile Apps Ahmed Al-Rawi7 From ISIS to the AfD: Ultraist Rhetoric and Visuality in Alt-Orientalist Concurrence Christiane Gruber8 The Sound and Sense of Jihad: Revisiting the Notion of Jihad in Jihadi-themed Arabic Chants Kurstin Gatt9 Documenting the Yazidi Survival of Genocide: Aesthetics and Politics between Sabaya, the Murad Code and The Last Girl Sebastian KöthePart III Ethnographic Perspectives on Imaginations and Materialities10 Talking Jihad: The Interactive Construction of a Racialised Threat in the Netherlands Martijn de Koning11 Fragments of Utopia: Political and Religious Emigrations from France to SyriaHamza Esmili12 Acting with God: Divine Interruption and Practices of Jihad Anja Kublitz13 Secular Normativity in Anti-jihad Discourse in France Aïcha BounagaPart IV Affective Archives – Enduring Sounds and Images14 An Epilogue of Images: On Theorising and Archiving Daesh’s Videos of Violence Robert Dörre15 Remediating Images of War: Cultural Practices behind Syrian Digital Archives after 2011 Enrico De Angelis and Yazan Badran16 Critical Spectatorship, Violent Care Kevin B. LeeAfterword: One Person’s Terrorist Is Another Person’s Freedom Fighter, One Person’s Jihad Is Another’s Crusade: Reflections on the Tokyo Reels Film Festival by Subversive Film at the Documenta 15, 2022 Wendy M. K. ShawIndex