Richard Mcneil-Willson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 147038 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Richard Mcneil-Willson |
| PRENOMES | Richard |
| SOBRENOME | Mcneil-Willson |
| ASSINATURA | MCNEIL-WILLSON R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8036-1698 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 2 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Crises of the Caliphate
This contribution explores how international crises are experienced by Islamic activist movements in Europe, particularly in relation to framing around the re-establishment of an Islamic Caliphate, to understand the link between international instability and trends in European ‘Islamism’. It takes the case of Hizb ut-Tahrir, a transnational Islamic movement, and uses 44 interviews conducted with leaders, members, and activists of the group in Bri…
Acute to Chronic Islamophobia
This paper examines the evolving role of the counterterrorism state in Islamophobia across Northern Europe, exploring how new preventative counterextremism measures have reshaped Islamophobia from acute articulations of violence to chronic social exclusion and how young Muslims have sought to respond. Drawing on 114 interviews with young Muslims aged 18–25 in the UK, Netherlands, Denmark, and Norway, along with eight subsequent focus groups, the …
The dynamics of Islamophobia and Islamism
This article explores the connections between systemic Islamophobia, exclusion and Islamist attitudes among young Muslims in four EU countries, utilising mixed-methods data, including 222 survey responses and 114 interviews. Analysis indicates a U-shaped correlation between Islamophobia and Islamism: moderate levels of perceived Islamophobia correlate with lower Islamist tendencies; moderate levels are associated with reduced tendencies; excessiv…
Introduction to the Special Issue Beyond the Crisis Frame
Entitled Constructing the ‘European Muslim Crisis’: Discourse, Policy, and Everyday Realities, this Special Issue was born from a critical imperative: to move beyond the taken-for-granted assumption of a ‘Muslim crisis’ in Europe and to instead interrogate the very assembly of this narrative [...]
Echoes of Fascism
This paper examines how social exclusion and relative deprivation foster extremist ideologies among Muslim minorities and ethnic majorities in four Northwestern European countries and to what extent theories of fascism can help to unravel these contemporary trends. We identify three key findings based on extensive interview data from the DRIVE project. First, minority and majority participants express ideological positions sharing structural simi…
Resilience and resistance
From Margins to Extremes
This paper explores the relationship between economic variables, social integration and susceptibility to extremism in Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. By analysing 415 interviews conducted with young people, activists and practitioners between 2021 and 2023, we have discerned patterns in the influence of economic conditions on radicalisation. We found that nationalist ideologies are associated with economic concerns, part…
Beyond the urban-rural binary
Digital Masculinities in Crisis
This paper introduces the Digital Masculinity Radicalisation Pathway (DMRP) framework to understand how digital spaces amplify threatened masculinity towards extremism. We explore how online environments reshape masculine identities by conducting a comparative analysis of 215 young men from ethnic majority and Muslim minority backgrounds in Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, and the UK. We observe support for a distinct Digital Masculinity Crisis …
Because They Are Women in a Man's World
This study is a critical discourse analysis of the misogynistic narratives shared by three incel violent extremists: Elliot Rodger, Alek Minassian, and Scott Beierle. Utilizing Kate Manne’s give/take model, which suggests a wider cultural pattern of misogyny serving to uphold patriarchy, this study finds that incel men expect women to provide feminine-coded services while men are entitled to assume masculine-coded privileges. Feminine-coded servi…
Routledge Handbook of Violent Extremism and Resilience
The last decade has witnessed growing concern about violent extremism as many European countries have introduced policies to prevent and counter violent extremism (P/CVE). Norway is no exception, launching three such action plans. Having also suffered from an extensive history of right-wing extremism, Norway was once the scene of the relatively successful pioneering of the European EXIT programme. However, extremist groups today are more socially…
Watering down the wine
The regulation of violent right‐wing extremist online content in the European Union is facing a conundrum. On the one hand, pressure to respond to concern over violent right‐wing extremism (or VRWE, a term used by the European Union to refer to ‘far right’) has led to a push to develop a coherent European‐wide response. On the one hand, this has led to a watering down or ‘loosening’ of the concept and implementation, to come to policy agreements …
Understanding the #plandemic
This paper examines the need and possibility for developing online resilience-based approaches in response to COVID-19 vaccine conspiracies, often linked to the far right. Examining three datasets collected between December 2020 and April 2021, this paper details conspiracy narratives that have developed around COVID-19 vaccines, with specific focus on understanding the deployment of the idea of a planned pandemic or so-called ‘#plandemic’. This …
Counter-terrorism and the repression of Islamic activism
This paper examines how practices of counter-terrorism (CT) have been perceived by legally-operating groups labelled ‘extremist’. Taking the cases of Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain (HTB) and Hizb ut-Tahrir Scandinavia (HTS), the paper explores how two branches of the same Islamic activist organisation have experienced CT through interviews with party members and activists. Using existing models of repression, the paper maps how counter-terrorism is perce…
Because They Are Women in a Man's World
This study is a critical discourse analysis of the misogynistic narratives shared by three incel violent extremists: Elliot Rodger, Alek Minassian, and Scott Beierle. Utilizing Kate Manne’s give/take model, which suggests a wider cultural pattern of misogyny serving to uphold patriarchy, this study finds that incel men expect women to provide feminine-coded services while men are entitled to assume masculine-coded privileges. Feminine-coded servi…
Counter-terrorism and the repression of Islamic activism
This paper examines how practices of counter-terrorism (CT) have been perceived by legally-operating groups labelled ‘extremist’. Taking the cases of Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain (HTB) and Hizb ut-Tahrir Scandinavia (HTS), the paper explores how two branches of the same Islamic activist organisation have experienced CT through interviews with party members and activists. Using existing models of repression, the paper maps how counter-terrorism is perce…
Counter-terrorism and the repression of Islamic activism
This paper examines how practices of counter-terrorism (CT) have been perceived by legally-operating groups labelled ‘extremist’. Taking the cases of Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain (HTB) and Hizb ut-Tahrir Scandinavia (HTS), the paper explores how two branches of the same Islamic activist organisation have experienced CT through interviews with party members and activists. Using existing models of repression, the paper maps how counter-terrorism is perce…
Understanding the #plandemic
This paper examines the need and possibility for developing online resilience-based approaches in response to COVID-19 vaccine conspiracies, often linked to the far right. Examining three datasets collected between December 2020 and April 2021, this paper details conspiracy narratives that have developed around COVID-19 vaccines, with specific focus on understanding the deployment of the idea of a planned pandemic or so-called ‘#plandemic’. This …
Routledge Handbook of Violent Extremism and Resilience
The last decade has witnessed growing concern about violent extremism as many European countries have introduced policies to prevent and counter violent extremism (P/CVE). Norway is no exception, launching three such action plans. Having also suffered from an extensive history of right-wing extremism, Norway was once the scene of the relatively successful pioneering of the European EXIT programme. However, extremist groups today are more socially…
Watering down the wine
The regulation of violent right‐wing extremist online content in the European Union is facing a conundrum. On the one hand, pressure to respond to concern over violent right‐wing extremism (or VRWE, a term used by the European Union to refer to ‘far right’) has led to a push to develop a coherent European‐wide response. On the one hand, this has led to a watering down or ‘loosening’ of the concept and implementation, to come to policy agreements …
Because They Are Women in a Man's World
This study is a critical discourse analysis of the misogynistic narratives shared by three incel violent extremists: Elliot Rodger, Alek Minassian, and Scott Beierle. Utilizing Kate Manne’s give/take model, which suggests a wider cultural pattern of misogyny serving to uphold patriarchy, this study finds that incel men expect women to provide feminine-coded services while men are entitled to assume masculine-coded privileges. Feminine-coded servi…
Introduction to the Special Issue Beyond the Crisis Frame
Entitled Constructing the ‘European Muslim Crisis’: Discourse, Policy, and Everyday Realities, this Special Issue was born from a critical imperative: to move beyond the taken-for-granted assumption of a ‘Muslim crisis’ in Europe and to instead interrogate the very assembly of this narrative [...]
Echoes of Fascism
This paper examines how social exclusion and relative deprivation foster extremist ideologies among Muslim minorities and ethnic majorities in four Northwestern European countries and to what extent theories of fascism can help to unravel these contemporary trends. We identify three key findings based on extensive interview data from the DRIVE project. First, minority and majority participants express ideological positions sharing structural simi…
Resilience and resistance
From Margins to Extremes
This paper explores the relationship between economic variables, social integration and susceptibility to extremism in Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. By analysing 415 interviews conducted with young people, activists and practitioners between 2021 and 2023, we have discerned patterns in the influence of economic conditions on radicalisation. We found that nationalist ideologies are associated with economic concerns, part…
Beyond the urban-rural binary
Digital Masculinities in Crisis
This paper introduces the Digital Masculinity Radicalisation Pathway (DMRP) framework to understand how digital spaces amplify threatened masculinity towards extremism. We explore how online environments reshape masculine identities by conducting a comparative analysis of 215 young men from ethnic majority and Muslim minority backgrounds in Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, and the UK. We observe support for a distinct Digital Masculinity Crisis …
Crises of the Caliphate
This contribution explores how international crises are experienced by Islamic activist movements in Europe, particularly in relation to framing around the re-establishment of an Islamic Caliphate, to understand the link between international instability and trends in European ‘Islamism’. It takes the case of Hizb ut-Tahrir, a transnational Islamic movement, and uses 44 interviews conducted with leaders, members, and activists of the group in Bri…
Acute to Chronic Islamophobia
This paper examines the evolving role of the counterterrorism state in Islamophobia across Northern Europe, exploring how new preventative counterextremism measures have reshaped Islamophobia from acute articulations of violence to chronic social exclusion and how young Muslims have sought to respond. Drawing on 114 interviews with young Muslims aged 18–25 in the UK, Netherlands, Denmark, and Norway, along with eight subsequent focus groups, the …
The dynamics of Islamophobia and Islamism
This article explores the connections between systemic Islamophobia, exclusion and Islamist attitudes among young Muslims in four EU countries, utilising mixed-methods data, including 222 survey responses and 114 interviews. Analysis indicates a U-shaped correlation between Islamophobia and Islamism: moderate levels of perceived Islamophobia correlate with lower Islamist tendencies; moderate levels are associated with reduced tendencies; excessiv…
Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence (11 obras) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (6 obras) · Political science (6 obras) · Sociology (6 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Politics (5 obras) · Psychology (4 obras) · Criminology (3 obras) · Ideology (3 obras) · Islam (3 obras)