Critical Methods in Terrorism Studies - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138018724 ISBN 13: 9781138018723

Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

This book shows how to use a range of critical approaches to conduct research on terrorism.

Featuring the work of researchers who have already utilized these methods to study terrorism, it includes a diverse range of critical methodological approaches – including discourse analysis, feminist, postcolonial, ethnographic, critical theory, and visual analysis of terrorism. The main objectives of the book are to assist researchers in adopting and applying various critical approaches to the study of terrorism. This goal is achieved by bringing together a number of different scholars working on the topic of terrorism from a range of non-variables-based approaches. Their individual chapters discuss explicitly the research methods used and methodological commitments made by the authors, while also illustrating the application of their particular critical perspective to the topic of terrorism. The authors of each chapter will discuss (1) why they chose their specific critical method; (2) how they justified their methodological stance; (3) how they conduct their research; (4) and, finally, an example of the research.

This book will be essential reading for students of terrorism studies and critical terrorism studies, and highly recommended for students of political violence, security studies and IR.

About this title

About the Author

Priya Dixit is assistant professor at the Department of Political Science, Virginia Tech, USA.

Jacob L. Stump is assistant professor of political science at Shepherd University, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138018724
• ISBN 13: 9781138018723
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 216
• Editor: Dixit Priya