Narrative, Political Violence and Social Change

Raquel da Silva is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the School of Economics, University of Coimbra, Portugal. She has published numerous articles and a monograph entitled Narratives of Political Violence: Life Stories of Former Militants (Routledge 2019).Josefin Graef is independent scholar whose work focuses on the uses of narrative for understanding contemporary European politics and societies. Her first monograph Imagining Far-right Terrorism: Violence, Immigration, and the Nation State in Contemporary Western Europe is forthcoming with Routledge. Nicolas Lemay-Hébert is Senior Lecturer, Department of International Relations, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, Australian National University. His latest books are The Law and Practice of Peacekeeping (coauthored with R. Freedman and S. Wills; CUP 2021) and Normalization in World Politics (coauthored with G. Visoka; MUP 2022).

• PART 1: Narrative approaches to deradicalisation and counter-terrorism 1. Disengagement from Political Violence and Deradicalization: A Narrative-Dialogical Perspective 2. Cultivating Trust and Perceptions of Source Credibility in Online Counternarratives Intended to Reduce Support for Terrorism PART 2: Narrative criminology and right-wing violence 3. When Being Bad is Good? Bringing Neutralization Theory to Subcultural Narratives of Right-Wing Violence 4. Telling the Story of the National Socialist Underground (NSU): A Narrative Media Analysis PART 3: Re-considering violent conflicts 5. Peacebuilding Beyond Terrorism? Revisiting the Narratives of the Basque Conflict 6. Recognizing Victims of Political Violence: Basque Literary Narratives as an Ethical Tool