Fomenting Political Violence

Steffen Krüger is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo, Norway. He develops critical, psychosocial approaches to media texts and discourses. Karl Figlio is in private psychoanalytic practice, and is also Professor Emeritus within the Department for Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, at the University of Essex, UK. His research includes psychoanalytic methodology, fundamentalism, memory and reparation.Barry Richards is Professor of Political Psychology at Bournemouth University, UK. He has long-standing interests in terrorism and political violence, in social cohesion, and in national identity and nationalisms.

• Fomenting Political Violence – An Introduction; Steffen Krüger with Karl Figlio and Barry Richards.- Chapter 1: 'Fighting for something great ...’: Intergenerational constellations and functions of self-culturalisation for adolescents in migrant families; Vera King.- Chapter 2: A most brutal and implacable superego: Understanding the pseudo-political violence of the Islamic State; Barry Richards.- Chapter 3: Pussy Riot, or The return of the repressed in discourse; Maria Brock.- Chapter 4: Violence and the Virtual: Right-wing, anti-asylum Facebook pages and the fomenting of political violence; Steffen Krüger.- Chapter 5: Shaping prejudice? Holocaust remembrance and the narrative of German suffering; Roger Frie.- Chapter 6: The Rhetorical Satisfactions of Hate Speech; James Martin.- Chapter 7: Fundamentalism and the Delusional Creation of an Enemy; Karl Figlio.- Chapter 8: Spatialization and the Fomenting of Political Violence; Deborah Wright.- Chapter 9: Four Monuments and a Funeral – Pathological Mourning and Collective Memory in Contemporary Hungary; Jeffrey Murer.-Chapter 10: Darwin, Freud, and Group Conflict; Jim Hopkins.