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The Age of Lone Wolf Terrorism
The lethality of lone-wolf terrorism has reached an all-time high in the United States. Isolated individuals using firearms with high-capacity magazines are committing brutally efficient killings with the aim of terrorizing others, yet there is little consensus on what connects these crimes and the motivations behind them. In The Age of Lone Wolf Terrorism, terrorism experts Mark S. Hamm and Ramón Spaaij combine criminological theory with empirical and ethnographic research to map the pathways of lone-wolf radicalization, helping with the identification of suspected behaviors and recognizing patterns of indoctrination. Reviewing comprehensive data on these actors, including more than two hu...
Understanding Football Hooliganism
Football hooliganism periodically generates widespread political and public anxiety. In spite of the efforts made and resources invested over the past decades, football hooliganism is still perceived by politicians, policymakers and media as a disturbing social problem. This highly readable book provides the first systematic and empirically grounded comparison of football hooliganism in different national and local contexts. Focused around the six Western European football clubs on which the author did his research, the book shows how different clubs experience and understand football hooliganism in different ways. The development and effects of anti-hooligan policies are also assessed. The emphasis throughout is on the importance of context, social interaction and collective identity for understanding football hooliganism. This book will be essential reading for anyone interested in football culture, hooliganism and collective violence.
The Visual Politics of Wars
This collection, part of a series entitled Visual Politics of War, presents some of the key approaches to war reporting and suggests trajectories for further critical research into media visualisation of conflict. Ever since the Vietnam War, media globalisation has made conflict a part of everyone’s life in the modern world. This is where war reporters play the crucial role of mediators, to bring us stories covering the various dimensions of war from some of the most vulnerable places on Earth. This volume will explore the visual culture of conflict, specifically the war on terror that is grounded in the conceptual claim that images are central to contemporary geopolitics.
Hooligans, fans en fanatisme
Football hooliganism periodically generates widespread political and public anxiety. In spite of the efforts made and resources invested over the past decades, football hooliganism is still perceived by politicians, policymakers and media as a disturbing social problem. This highly readable book provides the first systematic and empirically grounded comparison of football hooliganism in different national and local contexts. Focused around the six Western European football clubs on which the author did his research, the book shows how different clubs experience and understand football hooliganism in different ways.
Sport and Social Exclusion in Global Society
Social exclusion is one of the most pressing challenges in post-industrial societies, encompassing economic, social, cultural and political dimensions. This important new book critically examines the relationship between sport and social exclusion, from global and cross-cultural perspectives. The book analyses sport and social exclusion by focusing on three key questions: How does social exclusion affect participation in sport? How is social exclusion (re)produced, experienced, resisted, and managed in sport? How is sport used to combat social exclusion and promote social inclusion in other life domains? To answer these questions, the authors discuss and critically reflect on existing knowle...
The Invention of Terrorism in Europe, Russia, and the United States
This book examines key cases of terrorist violence to show that the invention of terrorism was linked to the birth of modernity in Europe, Russia and the United States, rather than to Tsarist despotism in 19th century Russia or to Islam sects in Medieval Persia. Combining a highly readable historical narrative with analysis of larger issues in social and political history, the author argues that the dissemination of news about terrorist violence was at the core of a strategy that aimed for political impact on rulers as well as the general public. Dietze's lucid account also reveals how the spread of knowledge about terrorist acts was, from the outset, a transatlantic process. Two incidents f...
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Terrorism
"The Oxford Handbook of the History of Terrorism presents a re-evaluation of the major narratives in the history of terrorism, exploring the emergence and the use of terrorism in world history from antiquity up to the twenty-first century. The volume presents terrorism as a historically specific form of political violence that was generated by modern Western culture and then transported around the globe, where it interacted with and was transformed in accordance with local conditions. It offers cogent arguments and well-documented case studies that support a reading of terrorism as a modern phenomenon, as well as sustained analyses of the challenges involved in the application of the theorie...
Sport and Social Mobility
Can sport serve as a vehicle for social mobility of disadvantaged social groups? How and to what extent are different forms of social capital created through sport participation? Sport and Social Mobility: Crossing Boundaries takes up these questions through a critical examination of the ways in which sport facilitates or inhibits upward social mobility. Drawing on four case studies, the book provides a rich sociological analysis of people’s lived experiences of sport in diverse social, cultural and political contexts, ranging from sport-for-development programs in Brazil and the Netherlands to rural communities and the Somali diaspora in Australia. The first international comparison of and critical reflection on the relationship between social mobility and participation in non-professional sport, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in sport’s potential for social inclusion.
Levd religion
Religion kan inte reduceras till tradition, text och tro. Den är levd – det vill säga en kroppsligt förankrad praktik som både är könad och situerad. Till den indiska pilgrimsorten Rishikesh kommer människor från hela världen för att utöva yoga och delta i satsang. I San Antonio, Texas, samlas evangelikat kristna med apokalyptiska övertygelser för bibelstudier och vardagsbestyr. Runt om i Sverige möts människor i tantristiska parövningar och andligt sökande. Samtidigt navigerar homosexuella muslimska män i vardagen, mellan familjens förväntningar, religionens föreskrifter och samhällets normer. I Levd religion samlas religionsvetenskapliga forskare som empiriskt, meto...
Die Fans vom Hamburger SV und dem FC St. Pauli im Vergleich: Eine sozialisationstheoretische Analyse
Fußballvereine gelten als Symbole der Zugehörigkeit und Rivalität. Was aber liegt der Zuordnung zu einer bestimmten Fangemeinschaft zu Grunde, wie wird ein Mensch zum Fan eines bestimmten Vereins? Diese Fragen werden hier anhand des Beispiels der Fans vom HSV und St. Pauli thematisiert. Für deutsche Verhältnisse ist die Rivalität zweier Profi-Clubs in einer Stadt ein seltenes Phänomen. Zudem hat die Fangemeinschaft des FC St. Pauli seit den 1980er Jahren in ihrer Außenwirkung eine besondere Stellung eingenommen. Deshalb bieten sich diese Vereine geradezu an, um die in der Fan-Soziologie meist nur am Rande dargestellten Themen der Herkunft der Fans und ihrer Sozialstruktur zu erforsch...
