Making sense of terrorism: a narrative approach to the study of violent events
Making sense of terrorism: a narrative approach to the study of violent events
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理解恐怖主义:研究暴力事件的叙事方法
DOI:
10.1080/17539153.2019.1585150
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发表时间:
2019
影响因子:
1.2
通讯作者:
Homolar A
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Homolar A
How does violence become understood as terrorism? In this article, we show how a narrative approach to the study of violent events offers a conceptually productive way to understand the process of “seeing” an event as a terrorist act, one that explicitly integrates the phenomenology of violence. While the collective practice of defining terrorism in academia and the policy arena has struggled to produce a universal definition, we identify a set of “common sense” characteristics. We argue that if the framing of violent events prominently features these characteristics as discursive anchors, this primes processes of sensemaking toward interpreting violence as terrorism. While terrorism markers are often articulated as being pragmatic and apolitical indicators of terrorist acts, we show that they are indeed at the core of political contests over historical and physical facts about violent events. The narrative approach we develop in this article underscores that intuitive leanings toward interpreting violence as terrorism are a sign of political agency precisely because they are produced through the stories political agents tell.
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