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In this study, Michael Wieviorka applies interventionist sociology to a comparative analysis of Italian, Peruvian, Basque, and Middle Eastern terrorist groups. Through staged confrontations between terrorists and their targets, and extensive interviews with both parties, he he attempts to throw new light on the terrorists and their relationships both to the movements they represent and the social institutions they attempt to destroy. Wieviorka demonstrates that the truly terrorist actor has become alienated both from the collective movement and society. The actor turns to blind violence when he finds himself cut off from the very ideology which legitimates his actions. Pure terrorism, Wieviorka concludes, is more than simply a break between those who use it and those it targets; it is a relationship - between the individual and the collective he represents - which has been rendered unrealistic or artificial. Thus, terrorist violence should be understood not as the desperate act of a faltering movement but as a substitute for a movement which has fallen away from the ideology in which it was forged.
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"A brilliant book and indeed an important contribution to a field still characterized by limited theoretical efforts and a shortage of good empirical research." - Fernando Reinares, Political Psychology "An impressive and provocative study.... Wieviorka's engagement of actual members of 'terrorist' organizations in sociological interventions is a much welcomed methodological innovation." - Cynthia L. Irvin, American Political Science Review
About the Author:
Michel Wieviorka is professor of sociology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.
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- PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0226896501
- ISBN 13 9780226896502
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages386
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