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"Aimed at scholars, students and lay persons interested in peace and conflict studies, The Ashgate Research Companion to Political Violence is a comprehensive resource to understand the principal debates on political violence, a field which is becoming an increasingly important part of courses on peace and conflict"--Provided by publisher.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Fomenting Political Violence: An Introduction -- A Psychosocial Approach to Studying Political Violence -- The Chapters in This Volume -- References -- 'Fighting for Something Great …': Intergenerational Constellations and Functions of Self-culturalisation for Adolescents in Migrant Families -- Introduction -- (Self)Culturalisation and the Instrumentalisation of Islam -- What Is Typical to Migration Is Not Typical to Culture -- Migration and Adolescence -- Generational Patterns Typical to Migration -- Conclusions: Functions of Culturalisation and Self-culturalisation in Adolescence -- Summary -- References -- A Most Brutal and Implacable Superego: Understanding the Pseudo-political Violence of the Islamic State -- Introduction -- Polarisation, Psychoanalysis, and Public Understanding -- Ideology as a State of Mind: Analysing Dabiq -- A Most Brutal and Implacable Superego -- Beyond Reason -- Beyond Religion and Politics -- References -- Pussy Riot, or the Return of the Repressed in Discourse -- Antagonistic Context -- Fantasies of Violence -- Ventriloquising the Past -- Haunted by History -- Conclusion -- References -- Violence and the Virtual: Right-wing, Anti-asylum Facebook Pages and the Fomenting of Political Violence -- Introduction -- Contextualising the Relation Between Social Media and Violence -- The Nein zum Heim Pages: Existing Research -- Selection of Material -- Identifying and Interpreting Typical Forms of Interaction: Methodological Reflections -- Analysis: Forms of Interaction on the Nein zum Heim Pages -- Form of Interaction I: Condensing the Dispersed into the Characteristic -- Form of Interaction II: Enduring Unendurable Injustice -- The Pleasure of Endurance and Its Backlash -- 'Our women and children': Gender Dynamics.

?Building on a recent turn toward a relational ontology in political theories of violent movements, this book?s timely and groundbreaking psychosocial intervention picks up where the Frankfurt School left off, looking below rational appearing surfaces to uncover fantasies, affects, and the conflictual unconscious dynamics that first motivate hatred and then create outlets for political violence. A must read in our increasingly violent times.? - Lynne Layton, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis, USA This book offers a psychosocial perspective on political violence, employing a strong current of psychoanalytic thinking. In the course of its chapters an international roster of researchers and scholars offers a richly complex and insightful view of diverse forms of political violence and its build-ups. The authors discuss the processes by which the ground for political violence is prepared, and how violent acts are facilitated. They question how social, cultural and political constellations can develop in such a way that, for certain people in this constellation, violence becomes a logical? perversely reasonable? response. This collection demonstrates what a psychoanalytic perspective can bring to existing approaches to political violence, going beyond the social movement approach by unfolding the inherent ambiguity in accepted concepts within the study of 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.

This book provides a unique perspective, at once scholarly and fully engaged, on the political violence in South Africa during 'The Time of the Comrades' in the mid-1980s. The work of a group of social scientists and professionals, whose own work and thinking have been profoundly affected by the political crisis of that time, it provides an in-depth research and analysis as well as critical reflections on the difficult political and theoretical issues raised by political violence and the struggle in South Africa

This volume offers important methodological and multi-disciplinary insights into the study of globalization and political violence, bringing together studies from various disciplines in order to address the precise nature of the relationship between the two.

1. Introduction / Derek Gregory and Allan Pred -- 2. Bare life, political violence, and the territorial structure of Britain and Ireland / Gerry Kearns -- 3. "An unrecognizable condition has arrived" / Anna J. Secor -- 4. Cosmopolitanism's collateral damage / Eric N. Olund -- 5. Refuge or refusal / Jennifer Hyndman and Alison Mountz -- 6. Imperialism imposed and invited / Jim Glassman -- 7. Spaces of terror and fear on Colombia's Pacific coast / Ulrich Oslender -- 8. Fatal transactions / Philippe Le Billon -- 9. The geography of Hindu right-wing violence in India / Rupal Oza -- 10. Revolutionary Islam / Michael Watts -- 11. Vanishing points / Derek Gregory -- 12. Groom Lake and the imperial production of nowhere / Trevor Paglen -- 13. Targeting the inner landscape / Matthew Farish -- 14. Immaculate warfare? The spatial politics of extreme violence / Nigel Thrift -- 15. The Pentagon's new imperial cartography / Simon Dalby -- 16. Demodernizing by design / Stephen Graham -- 17. The terror city hypothesis / Mitchell Gray and Elvin Wyly -- 18. Banal terrorism / Cindi Katz -- 19. Situated ignorance and state terrorism / Allan Pred.

According to political theory, the primary function of the modern state is to protect its citizens--both from each other and from external enemies. Yet it is the states that essentially commit major forms of violence, such as genocides, ethnic cleansings, and large-scale massacres, against their own citizens. In this book Paul Dumouchel argues that this paradoxical reversal of the state's primary function into violence against its own members is not a mere accident but an ever-present possibility that is inscribed in the structure of the modern state. Modern states need enemies to exist and to persist, not because they are essentially evil but because modern politics constitutes a violent means of protecting us against our own violence. If they cannot--if we cannot--find enemies outside the state, they will find them inside. However, this institution is today coming to an end, not in the sense that states are disappearing, but in the sense that they are increasingly failing to protect us from our own violence. That is why the violent sacrifices that they ask from us, in wars and even in times of peace, have now become barren

Derek Gregory and Allan Pred's Violent Geographies gathers together a group of young and well established geographers to look at how territory and space delimit and shape both terrorism and political violence in wide range of places, from the Middle East to Latin America. In short, the book shows how physical violence, especially terrorism, disrupts the distinction between the global and the local by injecting transnational politics into the intimacies of everyday life.