Talk about terror in our back gardens”
An analysis of online comments about British foreign fighters in Syria
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12919081 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Raquel Da Silva (0000-0002-5239-5919, University of Birmingham), Rhys Crilley (0000-0003-1816-5535, University of Birmingham, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 162-186 |
| Publication date | 2016-10-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Studies on Terrorism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1753-9161 • E-ISSN: 1753-9153 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17539153.2016.1237011 |
| OpenAlex | W2535314167 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 26 |
| References cited | 54 |
The phenomenon of foreign fighters has become a central issue to the ongoing conflict in Syria. This article explores how members of the public answer the question ‘Why do British citizens join the conflict in Syria’ on social media sites and in response to online news articles. Building upon research on everyday narratives of security and terrorism, we analyse 807 comments, and in doing so, we argue that online comments are important in producing the discursive environment for making sense of British foreign fighters and what should be done in response to them. We find that there is a tendency to view British foreign fighters as being purely motivated by religion, and there is also a belief that British foreign fighters should be responded to through exceptional measures. We discuss the implications of such perceptions, and we highlight how problematic misconceptions about Islam and Muslims are not just disseminated through elite and media discourse, but through everyday narratives published by members of the public online
Criminology · Elite · Epistemology · Islam · Media studies · Narrative · Perception · Phenomenon · Political science · Politics · Public discourse · Public relations · Social media · Sociology · Terrorism · Gender Studies · Global Security and Public Health · History · Law · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
Narrative, Political Violence and Social Change
Where We At? New Directions for Research on Popular Culture and World Politics
A Turning IR Landscape in a Shifting Media Ecology
From having to doing vernacular security
Exploring the intersection of Islam and digital technology
Making Sense of Emotions and Affective Investments in War
Understanding public constructions of counter-terrorism
Future security threats arising from the UK’s deprivation of citizenship
Exploring Discursive Strategies of Dark Participation
Understanding militarism after the end of the Cold War
It’s like almost hypnotised people’
Methodological insights into digital vernacular (in)security
Ignorance, (in)security and Europe’s ‘migration crisis
A politics of living (in)security
Mamie Djihad’
Emotions and war on YouTube
Precarious multiplicity
A multimodal mixed methods approach for examining recontextualisation patterns of violent extremist images in online media
Is Drew This Dream Picture—like Floating on a Pink Cloud”
Strategies of Critique in Vernacular Security Discourse
Tweeting terrorism
Death and denial in the city
Counting Security in the Vernacular
The Everyday Life of Security
The language of terror
Tringapore - Singapore in geopolitical comics
The Ethics of Using the Internet to Collect Qualitative Research Data
Covering Islam
The State of Exception
Critical Security Studies and World Politics
Theorizing Web 2.0
Social media and everyday politics
The Social Media Reader
Culture, Crisis and America's War on Terror
Critical Approaches to Security
Jihad Beyond Islam
Radicalisation and Media
Terrorism
The Discursive Construction of EU Counter-Terrorism Policy
Ask the audience
Propaganda and the subversion of objectivity
Framing terrorism
Critical Terrorism Studies–an introduction
Framing alleged Islamist plots
Terrorism Programming
Pre-mediating guilt
Introduction
American and foreign terrorists
When do people pay attention? Violence and non-violence in political movements and the differential media attention provided
Media and mediation in the ‘war on terror’
Shifting Securities
The Core Commitments of Critical Terrorism Studies
International Relations 2.0
De/Constructing “Suspect” Communities
Foreign Fighters and the Case of Chechnya
The Spaces and Faces of Critical Terrorism Studies
Vernacular theories of everyday (in)security
The Question of Information Technology in International Relations
Images as weapons of war
The Rise of Muslim Foreign Fighters
Help Wanted? The Mixed Record of Foreign Fighters in Domestic Insurgencies
Covering Islam
The Politics of Representation
Why Foreign Fighters
The evolution of the European Union’s ‘fight against terrorism’ discourse
Mapping the Contours of ‘Everyday Security’
Strategic Narratives
What would you do? Everyday conceptions and constructions of counter-terrorism
Introduction
Talking about terrorism
The Causes of Terrorism
Counter-Terrorism and the Counterfactual
Seeing strategic narratives
Vernacular Securities and Their Study
Foreign Bodies
| Unique citing works | 26 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,89 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 26 |