Jonathan Githens-Mazer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1162592 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Githens-Mazer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Githens-Mazer |
| SIGNATURE | GITHENS-MAZER J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
From Egypt to Europe
When presenting a paper at a large seminar at the British Embassy in Cairo in 2009, a rumble emanated from the audience. The papers on the panel were all presented by British and other European sch
The rhetoric and reality
This article will illustrate how the term ‘radicalization’ has both contributed to and been the subject of the social construction of risk surrounding violence and radicalization. To this extent, contemporary discussions of radicalization are related to ideas of ‘vulnerability’ and susceptibility to ‘extremism’ – topics which facilitate problematic assertions of inherent relationships between challenging ideas and the propensity for violence. The…
Why conventional wisdom on radicalization fails
Politicians, the media, and some academics are getting it wrong about radicalization. Relying on simple narratives to explain how an individual departs from point a (‘a good Muslim boy’) to point b (‘a suicide bomber’), too many recent contributions to academia rely on assumptions and ‘conventional wisdom’ rather than testable and falsifiable empirical research and methods. Through specific cases, this article seeks to demonstrate how the over-si…
The blowback of repression and the dynamics of North African radicalization
The narrative of the historic struggle against colonialism is subject to a high degree of political manipulation in North Africa. Myths, memories and symbols based on the struggle against colonial oppression, whether ‘true’ or not, provide a latent and continually relevant context for understanding and interpreting contemporary events. For both recent North African immigrants, and second, third and fourth generation immigrants to Europe, contempo…
Islamic Radicalisation among North Africans in Britain
This article examines how symbols of Islamic repression and massacre affect radicalisation among North Africans living in the UK. It suggests that these symbols are an insufficient but necessary cause in the larger process of ‘radicalisation’, because they provide a basis for perceptions of injustice. In this context, myths, memories and symbols of colonial repression, contemporary repression of free political expression in North African states a…
Variations on a Theme
Takfiri jihadists, typified by an al-Qaeda perspective, claim that the “true” Muslim Umma (the Islamic community) is held together by a centrifugal universality based on religious identity, and that this religion compels people to engage in a form of radical violent Islamism to confront the evils of the Dar el-Harb (non-Islamic World). A closer examination of those mechanisms of individual radicalization (whether cultural, political, social-psych…
Locating Agency in Collective Political Behaviour
Some studies have emphasised the role of modernity and/or the emergence of the state in the occurrence of nationalism. These perspectives have underemphasised the motivations and rationales of individuals who claim to act on behalf of the nation. Over-reliance on state-based accounts of nationalism contributes to a broader failure to explain or predict specific and definable moments of popular nationalist mobilisation. This article seeks to redre…
Ancient Erin, Modern Socialism
James Connolly's conception of socialism and nationalism continues to generate debate, in no small part a function of doctrinaire analyses ranging from orthodox nationalist to republican-socialist. These orientations parallel primordialist and modernist approaches to nationalism respectively. A perennialist approach to nationalism, such as that of ethno-symbolism, more ably explains Connolly's vision of a socialist struggle for social, economic a…
The rhetoric and reality
This article will illustrate how the term ‘radicalization’ has both contributed to and been the subject of the social construction of risk surrounding violence and radicalization. To this extent, contemporary discussions of radicalization are related to ideas of ‘vulnerability’ and susceptibility to ‘extremism’ – topics which facilitate problematic assertions of inherent relationships between challenging ideas and the propensity for violence. The…
Why conventional wisdom on radicalization fails
Politicians, the media, and some academics are getting it wrong about radicalization. Relying on simple narratives to explain how an individual departs from point a (‘a good Muslim boy’) to point b (‘a suicide bomber’), too many recent contributions to academia rely on assumptions and ‘conventional wisdom’ rather than testable and falsifiable empirical research and methods. Through specific cases, this article seeks to demonstrate how the over-si…
Locating Agency in Collective Political Behaviour
Some studies have emphasised the role of modernity and/or the emergence of the state in the occurrence of nationalism. These perspectives have underemphasised the motivations and rationales of individuals who claim to act on behalf of the nation. Over-reliance on state-based accounts of nationalism contributes to a broader failure to explain or predict specific and definable moments of popular nationalist mobilisation. This article seeks to redre…
Islamic Radicalisation among North Africans in Britain
This article examines how symbols of Islamic repression and massacre affect radicalisation among North Africans living in the UK. It suggests that these symbols are an insufficient but necessary cause in the larger process of ‘radicalisation’, because they provide a basis for perceptions of injustice. In this context, myths, memories and symbols of colonial repression, contemporary repression of free political expression in North African states a…
The blowback of repression and the dynamics of North African radicalization
The narrative of the historic struggle against colonialism is subject to a high degree of political manipulation in North Africa. Myths, memories and symbols based on the struggle against colonial oppression, whether ‘true’ or not, provide a latent and continually relevant context for understanding and interpreting contemporary events. For both recent North African immigrants, and second, third and fourth generation immigrants to Europe, contempo…
Variations on a Theme
Takfiri jihadists, typified by an al-Qaeda perspective, claim that the “true” Muslim Umma (the Islamic community) is held together by a centrifugal universality based on religious identity, and that this religion compels people to engage in a form of radical violent Islamism to confront the evils of the Dar el-Harb (non-Islamic World). A closer examination of those mechanisms of individual radicalization (whether cultural, political, social-psych…
Ancient Erin, Modern Socialism
James Connolly's conception of socialism and nationalism continues to generate debate, in no small part a function of doctrinaire analyses ranging from orthodox nationalist to republican-socialist. These orientations parallel primordialist and modernist approaches to nationalism respectively. A perennialist approach to nationalism, such as that of ethno-symbolism, more ably explains Connolly's vision of a socialist struggle for social, economic a…
Islamic Radicalisation among North Africans in Britain
This article examines how symbols of Islamic repression and massacre affect radicalisation among North Africans living in the UK. It suggests that these symbols are an insufficient but necessary cause in the larger process of ‘radicalisation’, because they provide a basis for perceptions of injustice. In this context, myths, memories and symbols of colonial repression, contemporary repression of free political expression in North African states a…
Variations on a Theme
Takfiri jihadists, typified by an al-Qaeda perspective, claim that the “true” Muslim Umma (the Islamic community) is held together by a centrifugal universality based on religious identity, and that this religion compels people to engage in a form of radical violent Islamism to confront the evils of the Dar el-Harb (non-Islamic World). A closer examination of those mechanisms of individual radicalization (whether cultural, political, social-psych…
Locating Agency in Collective Political Behaviour
Some studies have emphasised the role of modernity and/or the emergence of the state in the occurrence of nationalism. These perspectives have underemphasised the motivations and rationales of individuals who claim to act on behalf of the nation. Over-reliance on state-based accounts of nationalism contributes to a broader failure to explain or predict specific and definable moments of popular nationalist mobilisation. This article seeks to redre…
Ancient Erin, Modern Socialism
James Connolly's conception of socialism and nationalism continues to generate debate, in no small part a function of doctrinaire analyses ranging from orthodox nationalist to republican-socialist. These orientations parallel primordialist and modernist approaches to nationalism respectively. A perennialist approach to nationalism, such as that of ethno-symbolism, more ably explains Connolly's vision of a socialist struggle for social, economic a…
The blowback of repression and the dynamics of North African radicalization
The narrative of the historic struggle against colonialism is subject to a high degree of political manipulation in North Africa. Myths, memories and symbols based on the struggle against colonial oppression, whether ‘true’ or not, provide a latent and continually relevant context for understanding and interpreting contemporary events. For both recent North African immigrants, and second, third and fourth generation immigrants to Europe, contempo…
Why conventional wisdom on radicalization fails
Politicians, the media, and some academics are getting it wrong about radicalization. Relying on simple narratives to explain how an individual departs from point a (‘a good Muslim boy’) to point b (‘a suicide bomber’), too many recent contributions to academia rely on assumptions and ‘conventional wisdom’ rather than testable and falsifiable empirical research and methods. Through specific cases, this article seeks to demonstrate how the over-si…
The rhetoric and reality
This article will illustrate how the term ‘radicalization’ has both contributed to and been the subject of the social construction of risk surrounding violence and radicalization. To this extent, contemporary discussions of radicalization are related to ideas of ‘vulnerability’ and susceptibility to ‘extremism’ – topics which facilitate problematic assertions of inherent relationships between challenging ideas and the propensity for violence. The…
From Egypt to Europe
When presenting a paper at a large seminar at the British Embassy in Cairo in 2009, a rumble emanated from the audience. The papers on the panel were all presented by British and other European sch
Political science (8 works) · Politics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · History (4 works) · Radicalization (4 works) · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence (4 works)