1. Can Terrorism Be Defined?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Introduction: Constructions of Terrorism 1
5. 1. Can Terrorism Be Defined? 11
6. 2. Misoverestimating Terrorism 21
7. 3. Terrorism as Tactic 38
8. 4. The Construction of State Terrorism 53
9. 5. Killing before an Audience: Terrorism as Performance Violence 67
10. 6. Constructing Terrorism: From Fear and Coercion to Anger and Jujitsu Politics 79
11. 7. Framing Terrorism: The Communicative Constitution of the Terrorist Actor 91
12. 8. Some Thoughts on Constructions of Terrorism and the Framing of the Terrorist Threat in the United Kingdom 108
13. 9. Contradictions in the Terrorist Discourse and Constraints on the Political Imagination of Violence 125
14. 10. Legal Constructions of Terrorism 138
15. 11. Do Different Definitions of Terrorism Alter Its Causal Story? 151
16. 12. Analyzing Pathways of Lone-Actor Radicalization: A Relational Approach 163
17. 13. Constructing Cultures of Martyrdom across Religions, Time, and Space 181
18. 14. Introducing the Government Actions in Terror Environments (GATE) Data Set 193
19. 15. The World versus Daesh: Constructing a Contemporary Terrorist Threat 208
20. Conclusion: Understanding How Terrorism Is Constructed 223
21. Contributors 231
22. Index 233