Victims of Political Violence and Terrorism

Making Up Resilient Survivors

Bibliographic Data

ID23537366
AuthorsWilliam Mcgowan (0000-0003-0921-303X)
Year2022
Publication date2022-02-22
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueVictims of Political Violence and Terrorism (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781003154020
OpenAlexW4211255619
Open LibraryOL36277169M
ISBN9781003154020
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited7

This book examines the survivors of political violence and terrorism, considering both how they have responded and how they have been responded to following critical incidents. As this work demonstrates, survivors of comparatively rare and spectacular violence hold a mirror up to society’s normative assumptions around trauma, recovery, and resilience. Drawing on two years of observational field research with a British NGO who work with victims and former perpetrators of PVT, this book explores contested notions of ‘resilience’ and what it might mean for those negotiating the aftermaths of violence. Examining knowledge about resilience from a multitude of sources, including security policy, media, academic literature, and the survivors themselves, this book contends that in order to make empirical sense of resilience we must reckon with both its discursive and practical manifestations. An accessible and compelling read, this book will appeal to students and scholars of criminology, sociology, victimology, criminal justice, and all those interested in the stories of survivors.

Computer security · Criminology · Political science · Political violence · Politics · Terrorism · Computer Science · Global Security and Public Health · Law · Psychology · Resilience (Personality trait) · Résilience (Trait de personnalité) · Social Science · Sociology · Victimes du terrorisme · Victims of political violence · Victims of terrorism

Tools

Open DOILibgenOpen Access