Christina Hellmich

Dados Biográficos

ID6177301
NOMEChristina Hellmich
PRENOMESChristina
SOBRENOMEHellmich
ASSINATURAHELLMICH C
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of Reading
VERIFICADONão
TOTAL DE OBRAS11
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES18
TOTAL COMO AUTOR10
TOTAL COMO EDITOR1
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2005
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2018
ÍNDICE H2

  • Carving the story

    Open AccessChristina HellmichARTICLEJournal de la Société des…2018Referências: 1

    The Jolika collection at the de Young museum in San Francisco, the largest display of New Guinea art in a United States art museum, is distinguished by an important group of historic works from the Sepik River region. Case studies of selected pieces highlight key curatorial issues and opportunities including cultural patrimony claims and the benefits of scientific testing. Ongoing engagement and collaboration with contemporary artists from Papua …

  • Knowing al-Qaeda

    Christina Hellmich, Andreas BehnkeBOOKKnowing Al-Qaeda2016

    At a time when many studies are overly policy oriented and focused solely on security implications, this bookshelf essential presents a much needed account on the epistemic structures underlying the social construction of terror/ism and al Qaeda

  • How Islamic is al-Qaeda? The politics of Pan-Islam and the challenge of modernisation

    Christina HellmichARTICLECritical Studies on Terrorism2014Citada por: 2Referências: 11

    This article investigates the contested ideology of al-Qaeda through an analysis of Osama bin Ladin’s writings and public statements issued between 1994 and 2011, set in relation to the development of Islamic thought and changing socio-political realities in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Challenging popular conceptions of Wahhabism and the “Salafi jihad”, it reveals an idealistic, Pan-Islamic sentiment at the core of his messages t…

  • Reply to Christine Sylvester, “Terrorwars

    Christina HellmichARTICLECritical Studies on Terrorism2014Referências: 2

    This response examines what is overlooked in Sylvester’s analysis of similarities between the US police security response to the Boston marathon bombings (2013) and Kevin Powers’ fictionalised account of the US war operations in Al Tafar, Iraq (2004) and evaluates the consequences for our understanding of contemporary war. This is done by highlighting differences between the experience of residents in Boston and the (real) town of Tal Afar, key a…

  • Fighting Al Qaeda in Yemen? Rethinking the Nature of the Islamist Threat and the Effectiveness of U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy

    Christina HellmichARTICLEStudies in Conflict and Terrorism2012Citada por: 3

    This paper evaluates the US’ perception of and response to al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) operating in Yemen. It evaluates the empirical evidence on which the present understanding of the group is based, the implications of the socio-political context in which it operates, and the uneasy position of the Yemeni government in the war against terror as it has been affected by US policy from the early 1990s to the present. In the contested …

  • Al-Qaeda

    Christina HellmichBOOKAl-Qaeda2011

    Since the attacks of September 11th 2001 and up to and beyond Osama bin Ladin’s death, al-Qaeda has come to embody the new enigmatic face of terrorism, dominating discussions of national and international security. Yet in spite of the attention it receives, conflicting assumptions about the group abound. Is al-Qaeda a rigidly structured organization, a global network of semi-independent cells, a franchise, or simply an idea whose time has come? W…

  • Marc Sageman

    Christina HellmichARTICLEDemocracy and Security2008

    The nature and threat of Al-Qaeda and its local affiliates are changing rapidly: seven years after the devastating attacks of September 11, 2001, as a result of the closure of training camps in Afg

  • Creating the Ideology of Al Qaeda

    Christina HellmichARTICLEStudies in Conflict and Terrorism2008Citada por: 13

    This article investigates the rationales of different explanatory models that have been utilized to explain the ideology of Al Qaeda. From perceptions of madmen and religious hypocrites to Wahhabis of the twenty-first century and Salafi-Jihadists, what these approaches have in common is an “outside-in” perspective that assumes a concept of the underlying logic of Al Qaeda without sufficient reference to primary sources. It is argued that particul…

  • Jillian Schwedler

    Christina HellmichARTICLEDemocracy and Security2007

    Do Islamist parties threaten emerging democratic processes or does political inclusion generate ideological moderation? Faith in Moderation is a highly informative work of comparative social analys

  • The Question is When

    Christina Hellmich, Amanda J RedigARTICLEStudies in Conflict and Terrorism2007

    This article evaluates the threat of bioterrorism through a joint analysis of Al Qaeda's ideology and the practical utility of molecular biology. Al Qaeda is shown to advance a logic that is based not on the main schools of Islamic theology but rather on the result of applying Islamic principles to sociopolitical change, thereby re-interpreting the guidelines of Islamic law. Al Qaeda's philosophical underpinnings render non-combatants legitimate …

  • Al-Qaeda—terrorists, hypocrites, fundamentalists? The view from within

    Christina HellmichARTICLEThird World Quarterly2005

    This article investigates the ideology of Al-Qaeda as perceived from within the network. Particular attention is paid to the ideological background of Al-Qaeda's intellectual leadership, its sociopolitical context and the nature of its recruits. The inner logic of the Al-Qaeda organisation advances an intellectual concept that is not based on the main schools of Islamic theology, but on a new ideological starting point that results from the appli…