Stefan Malthaner
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 367669 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Stefan Malthaner |
| PRENOMES | Stefan |
| SOBRENOME | Malthaner |
| ASSINATURA | MALTHANER S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Hamburg Institute for Social Research |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-7000-4353 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 121 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2003 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Shifting Forms of Political Violence Across Socio-Spatial Configurations
Drawing on Norbert Elias’ concept of “figuration,” this article argues against treating armed groups as static, autonomous units (reification) and instead advocates for analyzing forms of political violence as shifting socio-spatial configurations. By analyzing political violence as a dynamic web of interdependencies between actors and their environments, this perspective offers three key advantages: it establishes a morphology based on recurring…
Das Problem der historischen Zeit revisited – oder
In unserem Essay fragen wir danach, welche Einsichten die soziologische Gewaltforschung momentan für militärgeschichtliche Untersuchungen bereithält. Ausgehend davon, dass sich Angehörige beider Forschungsgebiete typischerweise aus entgegengesetzter Richtung auf das »Problem der historischen Zeit« (Simmel) zubewegen, sehen wir einen Punkt, den wir als Gesellschaftsgestaltung skizzieren möchten
Politics in Flux
Phenomena of collective action – of collective political conflict1 – are neither uniform nor stable. They comprise institutional and non-institution- al actors as well as routine, confrontational, or even violent forms of action. They take place in different arenas, change over time and involve individu- als in different ways, roles, and trajectories. This variance and heterogene- ity corresponds to a diversified research landscape, with separate…
Scattered Attacks
The proliferation of lone-actor terrorist attacks over the past decade has led to a rapidly expanding literature and a subfield of research. However, this research has only to a limited degree been brought into wider discussions on political violence and social movements. In the present article, we take up this synthetic challenge and argue the need to theorize the social and collective dynamics of lone-actor terrorism. The article proposes a nov…
Mobilization Forum on “Video Protest Event Analysis
Eskalation. G20 in Hamburg, Protest und Gewalt
Der G20-Gipfel 2017 in Hamburg ist nicht wegen der vielfältigen Protestformen oder der dort verhandelten Themen in Erinnerung geblieben, sondern vor allem wegen der gewaltsamen Ausschreitungen und Konfrontationen mit der Polizei. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes analysieren die Dynamiken der damaligen Eskalation. Dabei rekonstruieren die Autor:innen Vorgeschichte und Verlauf der Gewalt und die Rolle der (sozialen) Medien, sie nehmen die politische sowi…
Paradigmatische Gräben
Zwischen Protest und Phänomenen Politischer Gewalt, wie Terrorismus, Bürgerkriegen oder gewaltsamen Ausschreitungen, bestehen vielfache Zusammenhänge und teils fließende Übergänge. Aus der Theoretisierung dieser Kontinuitäten und der Erweiterung des eigenen Gegenstandsbereiches entstanden wichtige innovative Impulse für die soziale Bewegungsforschung. Deren Verhältnis zu unterschiedlichen Feldern der Gewaltforschung ist jedoch geprägt und teils l…
Peripheral and embedded
This article provides a comparative analysis of lone-actor terrorist radicalization from a relational perspective. Extant research on lone-actor terrorism has shown that lone actors are rarely as “lone” as public perceptions suggest. In most cases, lone-actor terrorists have some social ties to established radical groups. Accordingly, this article asks (1) why these individuals do not integrate into the radical groups they frequent and engage in …
End of the Lone Wolf
This research note argues that the ‘lone wolf’ typology should be fundamentally reconsidered. Based on a three-year empirical research project, two key points are made to support this argument. First, the authors found that ties to online and offline radical milieus are critical to lone actors’ adoption and maintenance of both the motive and capability to commits acts of terrorism. Secondly, in terms of pre-attack behaviors, the majority of lone …
Radicalization
Over the course of the past decade, "radicalization" has become prevalent as an analytical paradigm to interpret and explain phenomena of political violence, notably in research on jihadist terrorism and Western "foreign fighters" in Syria and Iraq. Thereby, while to some extent opening up new avenues of investigation, the concept also significantly re-shaped the way in which phenomena of political violence were analyzed and explained, focusing a…
Dynamics of Political Violence
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Violence, Legitimacy, and Control
When police moved against a mosque known to be a stronghold of al-Jamaa al-Islamiyya (The Islamic Group) in a neighbourhood in northeastern Cairo in summer 1988, they quickly became involved in street battles in which they were confronted not only by members of the militant Islamist group but also by many ordinary residents, including teenagers and elderly women throwing stones from balconies. It was obvious that the group had built a considerabl…
Contextualizing Radicalization
This article proposes an analytical perspective on jihadist radicalization that focuses on the immediate social environment from which clandestine violent groups emerge, to which they remain socially and symbolically connected, and from which they receive some degree of support. Based on a detailed analysis of the “Sauerland-Group” it traces relational dynamics shaping individual pathways as well as processes of group formation within local Salaf…
The Radical Milieu
Terrorist groups are not completely isolated, socially “free-floating” entities, but emerge from and operate within a specific, immediate social environment—what we call the radical milieu—which shares their perspective and objectives, approves of certain forms of violence, and (at least to a certain extent) supports the violent group morally and logistically. In this article we introduce an approach to conceptualize and analyze this formative an…
Dynamics of Political Violence
Control of Violence
Modern societies are increasingly confronted with forms of violence that appear unpredictable and uncontrollable. Are the existing control regimes such as police, state surveillance institutions, and legal systems able to effectively contain phenomena such as school shootings, terrorism, or violence in fragile states, and what would help them become more effective? What is the relationship between state rule and self-control in limiting violence?…
La comunitŕ che rifiuta di accettare la Legge di Dio
In the study of radicalization and processes of political violence, the relationship between militant groups and their social and political environment is considered mainly with respect to interactions between the militants and their adversaries (police, governments). Drawing on an analysis of the Egyptian militant Islamist group al-Jamaa al-Islamiyya between 1986 and 1997, this paper argues that beyond this dyadic relationship, interactions betw…
Confronting terrorism
Contents, 1. Confronting Terrorism, Marianne van Leeuwen, 2. Policy Options and Priorities: British Perspectives, Clive Walker, 3. Irish Experiences and Perspectives, Dermot Walsh, 4. Democratization and State Responses to Protracted Terrorism in Spain, Fernando Reinares, 5. The French Approach: Vigour and Vigilance, Nathalie Cettina, 6. Terrorism in Italy: Receding and Emerging Issues, Giuseppe de Lutiis, Terrorism in Germany: Old and New Proble…
End of the Lone Wolf
This research note argues that the ‘lone wolf’ typology should be fundamentally reconsidered. Based on a three-year empirical research project, two key points are made to support this argument. First, the authors found that ties to online and offline radical milieus are critical to lone actors’ adoption and maintenance of both the motive and capability to commits acts of terrorism. Secondly, in terms of pre-attack behaviors, the majority of lone …
The Radical Milieu
Terrorist groups are not completely isolated, socially “free-floating” entities, but emerge from and operate within a specific, immediate social environment—what we call the radical milieu—which shares their perspective and objectives, approves of certain forms of violence, and (at least to a certain extent) supports the violent group morally and logistically. In this article we introduce an approach to conceptualize and analyze this formative an…
Dynamics of Political Violence
Radicalization
Over the course of the past decade, "radicalization" has become prevalent as an analytical paradigm to interpret and explain phenomena of political violence, notably in research on jihadist terrorism and Western "foreign fighters" in Syria and Iraq. Thereby, while to some extent opening up new avenues of investigation, the concept also significantly re-shaped the way in which phenomena of political violence were analyzed and explained, focusing a…
Violence, Legitimacy, and Control
When police moved against a mosque known to be a stronghold of al-Jamaa al-Islamiyya (The Islamic Group) in a neighbourhood in northeastern Cairo in summer 1988, they quickly became involved in street battles in which they were confronted not only by members of the militant Islamist group but also by many ordinary residents, including teenagers and elderly women throwing stones from balconies. It was obvious that the group had built a considerabl…
Peripheral and embedded
This article provides a comparative analysis of lone-actor terrorist radicalization from a relational perspective. Extant research on lone-actor terrorism has shown that lone actors are rarely as “lone” as public perceptions suggest. In most cases, lone-actor terrorists have some social ties to established radical groups. Accordingly, this article asks (1) why these individuals do not integrate into the radical groups they frequent and engage in …
Scattered Attacks
The proliferation of lone-actor terrorist attacks over the past decade has led to a rapidly expanding literature and a subfield of research. However, this research has only to a limited degree been brought into wider discussions on political violence and social movements. In the present article, we take up this synthetic challenge and argue the need to theorize the social and collective dynamics of lone-actor terrorism. The article proposes a nov…
Contextualizing Radicalization
This article proposes an analytical perspective on jihadist radicalization that focuses on the immediate social environment from which clandestine violent groups emerge, to which they remain socially and symbolically connected, and from which they receive some degree of support. Based on a detailed analysis of the “Sauerland-Group” it traces relational dynamics shaping individual pathways as well as processes of group formation within local Salaf…
Confronting terrorism
Contents, 1. Confronting Terrorism, Marianne van Leeuwen, 2. Policy Options and Priorities: British Perspectives, Clive Walker, 3. Irish Experiences and Perspectives, Dermot Walsh, 4. Democratization and State Responses to Protracted Terrorism in Spain, Fernando Reinares, 5. The French Approach: Vigour and Vigilance, Nathalie Cettina, 6. Terrorism in Italy: Receding and Emerging Issues, Giuseppe de Lutiis, Terrorism in Germany: Old and New Proble…
Control of Violence
Modern societies are increasingly confronted with forms of violence that appear unpredictable and uncontrollable. Are the existing control regimes such as police, state surveillance institutions, and legal systems able to effectively contain phenomena such as school shootings, terrorism, or violence in fragile states, and what would help them become more effective? What is the relationship between state rule and self-control in limiting violence?…
La comunitŕ che rifiuta di accettare la Legge di Dio
In the study of radicalization and processes of political violence, the relationship between militant groups and their social and political environment is considered mainly with respect to interactions between the militants and their adversaries (police, governments). Drawing on an analysis of the Egyptian militant Islamist group al-Jamaa al-Islamiyya between 1986 and 1997, this paper argues that beyond this dyadic relationship, interactions betw…
Contextualizing Radicalization
This article proposes an analytical perspective on jihadist radicalization that focuses on the immediate social environment from which clandestine violent groups emerge, to which they remain socially and symbolically connected, and from which they receive some degree of support. Based on a detailed analysis of the “Sauerland-Group” it traces relational dynamics shaping individual pathways as well as processes of group formation within local Salaf…
The Radical Milieu
Terrorist groups are not completely isolated, socially “free-floating” entities, but emerge from and operate within a specific, immediate social environment—what we call the radical milieu—which shares their perspective and objectives, approves of certain forms of violence, and (at least to a certain extent) supports the violent group morally and logistically. In this article we introduce an approach to conceptualize and analyze this formative an…
Dynamics of Political Violence
Violence, Legitimacy, and Control
When police moved against a mosque known to be a stronghold of al-Jamaa al-Islamiyya (The Islamic Group) in a neighbourhood in northeastern Cairo in summer 1988, they quickly became involved in street battles in which they were confronted not only by members of the militant Islamist group but also by many ordinary residents, including teenagers and elderly women throwing stones from balconies. It was obvious that the group had built a considerabl…
Dynamics of Political Violence
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
End of the Lone Wolf
This research note argues that the ‘lone wolf’ typology should be fundamentally reconsidered. Based on a three-year empirical research project, two key points are made to support this argument. First, the authors found that ties to online and offline radical milieus are critical to lone actors’ adoption and maintenance of both the motive and capability to commits acts of terrorism. Secondly, in terms of pre-attack behaviors, the majority of lone …
Radicalization
Over the course of the past decade, "radicalization" has become prevalent as an analytical paradigm to interpret and explain phenomena of political violence, notably in research on jihadist terrorism and Western "foreign fighters" in Syria and Iraq. Thereby, while to some extent opening up new avenues of investigation, the concept also significantly re-shaped the way in which phenomena of political violence were analyzed and explained, focusing a…
Peripheral and embedded
This article provides a comparative analysis of lone-actor terrorist radicalization from a relational perspective. Extant research on lone-actor terrorism has shown that lone actors are rarely as “lone” as public perceptions suggest. In most cases, lone-actor terrorists have some social ties to established radical groups. Accordingly, this article asks (1) why these individuals do not integrate into the radical groups they frequent and engage in …
Eskalation. G20 in Hamburg, Protest und Gewalt
Der G20-Gipfel 2017 in Hamburg ist nicht wegen der vielfältigen Protestformen oder der dort verhandelten Themen in Erinnerung geblieben, sondern vor allem wegen der gewaltsamen Ausschreitungen und Konfrontationen mit der Polizei. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes analysieren die Dynamiken der damaligen Eskalation. Dabei rekonstruieren die Autor:innen Vorgeschichte und Verlauf der Gewalt und die Rolle der (sozialen) Medien, sie nehmen die politische sowi…
Paradigmatische Gräben
Zwischen Protest und Phänomenen Politischer Gewalt, wie Terrorismus, Bürgerkriegen oder gewaltsamen Ausschreitungen, bestehen vielfache Zusammenhänge und teils fließende Übergänge. Aus der Theoretisierung dieser Kontinuitäten und der Erweiterung des eigenen Gegenstandsbereiches entstanden wichtige innovative Impulse für die soziale Bewegungsforschung. Deren Verhältnis zu unterschiedlichen Feldern der Gewaltforschung ist jedoch geprägt und teils l…
Das Problem der historischen Zeit revisited – oder
In unserem Essay fragen wir danach, welche Einsichten die soziologische Gewaltforschung momentan für militärgeschichtliche Untersuchungen bereithält. Ausgehend davon, dass sich Angehörige beider Forschungsgebiete typischerweise aus entgegengesetzter Richtung auf das »Problem der historischen Zeit« (Simmel) zubewegen, sehen wir einen Punkt, den wir als Gesellschaftsgestaltung skizzieren möchten
Politics in Flux
Phenomena of collective action – of collective political conflict1 – are neither uniform nor stable. They comprise institutional and non-institution- al actors as well as routine, confrontational, or even violent forms of action. They take place in different arenas, change over time and involve individu- als in different ways, roles, and trajectories. This variance and heterogene- ity corresponds to a diversified research landscape, with separate…
Scattered Attacks
The proliferation of lone-actor terrorist attacks over the past decade has led to a rapidly expanding literature and a subfield of research. However, this research has only to a limited degree been brought into wider discussions on political violence and social movements. In the present article, we take up this synthetic challenge and argue the need to theorize the social and collective dynamics of lone-actor terrorism. The article proposes a nov…
Mobilization Forum on “Video Protest Event Analysis
Shifting Forms of Political Violence Across Socio-Spatial Configurations
Drawing on Norbert Elias’ concept of “figuration,” this article argues against treating armed groups as static, autonomous units (reification) and instead advocates for analyzing forms of political violence as shifting socio-spatial configurations. By analyzing political violence as a dynamic web of interdependencies between actors and their environments, this perspective offers three key advantages: it establishes a morphology based on recurring…
Political science (14 obras) · Law (11 obras) · Sociology (11 obras) · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence (9 obras) · Terrorism (8 obras) · Criminology (7 obras) · Politics (7 obras) · Political Conflict and Governance (6 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Philosophy (5 obras)