Aggarwal Media Persuasion in the Islamic State

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-231-54412-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 100 Seiten

Drawing upon research in cultural psychiatry, cultural psychology, and psychiatric anthropology, Neil Krishan Aggarwal investigates how the Islamic State has convinced people to engage in violence. Aggarwal offers a definitive analysis of how culture is created, debated, and disseminated within militant organizations like the Islamic State.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aggarwal, Neil Krishan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Medien & Gesellschaft, Medienwirkungsforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Terrorismus, Religiöser Fundamentalismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie Kulturpsychologie, Ethnopsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
1. Studying Islamic State Discourse as Mediated Disorder
2. The Organization of Monotheism and Jihad: Constructing a Militant Cultural Identity
3. Al Qaeda in Iraq: OMJ, Al Qaeda, and Militant Acculturation
4. The Assembly of the Mujahideen Council: Common Group Identity Formation
5. The Islamic State of Iraq, 2006–2013: A Shift in Militant Identity
6. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria: Militant Cultural Diffusion
7. The Islamic State: The Transmission of Militancy in Families
8. Toward a Science, Policy, and Practice of Militant Counter-Messaging
Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Neil Krishan Aggarwal is an assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University, a cultural psychiatrist in private practice, and a research psychiatrist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. He is also the author of the Columbia University Press books Mental Health in the War on Terror: Culture, Science, and Statecraft (2015) and The Taliban’s Virtual Emirate: The Culture and Psychology of an Online Militant Community (2016).