Routledge Handbook of Critical Terrorism Studies

Richard Jackson is Professor of Peace Studies and Director of the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Otago, New Zealand. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Critical Studies on Terrorism and author of numerous titles, including most recently Confessions of a Terrorist (2014), Contemporary Debates on Terrorism (co-edited, Routledge 2012) and Terrorism: A Critical Introduction (co-authored, 2011).

• 1. Introduction: a decade of critical terrorism studies, Richard Jackson PART 1: Critical approaches to the study of "terrorism" 2. The emergence of terrorism studies as a field, Lisa Stampnitzky 3. Critical terrorism studies after 9/11, Lee Jarvis 4. The real and the bluff: on the ontology of terrorism, Joseba Zulaika 5. Critical epistemologies of terrorism, James Fitzgerald 6. Post-structuralism and constructivism, Charlotte Heath-Kelly 7.Critical theory and terrorism studies: ethics and emancipation, Harmonie Toros 8. The historical materialist approach to critical terrorism studies, Douglas Porpora 9. Methodology and the critical study of terrorism, Jacob Stump Part 2: The nature and causes of "terrorism" 10. The definition of "terrorism", Timothy Shanahan 11. The narrative of terrorism as an existential threat, Jessica Wolfendale 12. New versus old terrorism, Alexander Spencer 13. Religion and terrorism, Ioannis Tellidis 14. Female terrorism and militancy, Caron Gentry and Laura E. Sjoberg Part 3: State terrorism 15. Understanding Western state terrorism, Ruth Blakeley and Sam Raphael 16. Torture, Robert Brecher 17. Rendition in the "War on Terror", Sam Raphael and Ruth Blakeley 18. Targeted killing and drone warfare, Laurie Calhoun Part 4: Contemporary responses to terrorism, 19 The language of counterterrorism, Jack Holland 20. Critical evaluation of counterterrorism, Sondre Lindahl 21. A critical perspective on the global war on terror, Paul Rogers 22. The Governmentality of Terrorism: Uncertainty, Risk Management, and Surveillance, Luca Mavelli 23. Radicalization, De-Radicalization, and Counter-Radicalization, Lasse Lindekilde Part 5: Emerging debates 24. Eco-terrorism and Expansionary Counter-Terrorism, John Sorenson 25. Media Coverage of Terrorism, Ben O-Loughlin 26. Collective Memory and Terrorism, Charlotte Heath-Kelly 27. Terrorism and Peace Studies, Ioannis Tellidis