Addressing the schizophrenia of global Jihad

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ID12919296
AuthorsNicholas Michelsen (0000-0002-9480-4004, King's College London, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume2
Issue3
Pages453-471
Publication date2009-11-16
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCritical Studies on Terrorism (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1753-9161 • E-ISSN: 1753-9153
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17539150903306154
OpenAlexW2089135429
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited25

This paper deploys Deleuze and Guattari's AntiOedipus to critique discourses on radicalisation that call for a ‘public diplomacy’ to challenge a Jihadi meta-narrative or core identity. It argues that the Global Jihad should be reconceptualised as schizophrenic inasmuch as it is made up of a multiplicity of groups, aims, values, rationales and identities. The paper seeks to develop the utility of Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy for bridging critical and traditional terrorism studies by arguing that their schizoanalysis is a helpful aid to reassessing dominant identitarian conceptual frameworks for Jihad, and offers directions for reformulating our responses to radicalisation

Aesthetics · Deleuze and Guattari · Diplomacy · Epistemology · Identity (music · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Situated · Sociology · Terrorism · Law · Media, Religion, Digital Communication · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence

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