LEADER 04718oam 2200589I 450 001 9910149377803321 005 20240501154005.0 010 $a1-315-56069-0 010 $a1-317-19902-2 010 $a1-317-19903-0 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315560694 035 $a(CKB)3710000000933644 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4732786 035 $a(OCoLC)962305866 035 $a(BIP)56540341 035 $a(BIP)62784318 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000933644 100 $a20180706d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aTerrorist histories $eindividuals and political violence since the 19th century /$fCaoimhe Nic Dhaibheid 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York, N.Y. :$cRoutledge,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (232 pages) 225 1 $aPolitical Violence 311 08$a1-138-60282-5 311 08$a1-138-67548-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $a1. Alexander Berkman -- 2. James L. O'Donovan -- 3. Jean Garcin -- 4. Amichai Paglin -- 5. Gudrun Ensslin -- 6. Jackie McDonald -- 7. David Eden Lane -- 8. Omar Hammami -- 9. Daniel McGowan. 330 $aThis book addresses provides a series of in-depth portraits of men and women who have been labelled 'terrorists', from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. Bridging historical methodologies and theoretical approaches to terrorism studies, it seeks to contribute to the developing historicising of terrorism studies. This is achieved principally through a prosopographical approach. In the preponderance of detailed statistical and quantitative data on the practice of terrorism and political violence, the individuals who participate in terrorist acts are often obscured. While ideologies and organisations have attracted much scholarly interest, less is known of the personal trajectories into political violence, particularly from a historical perspective. The focus on a relatively narrow cast of high-profile terrorist 'villains', to a large part driven by popular and media attention, results in a somewhat skewed picture; of equal value, arguably, is a more sustained reflection on the lives of lesser-known individuals.  The book sits at the juncture between terrorism studies, historical biography and ethnography. It comprises case studies of ten individuals who have engaged in political violence in the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries, in a number of locations and with a variety of ideological motivations, from Russian-inflected anarchism to Islamist extremism. Through detailed empirical research, crucial themes in the study of terrorism and political violence are explored: the diverse individual radicalisation pathways, the question of disengagement and re-engagement, various counter-terrorist and counter-insurgency strategies adopted by governments and security forces, and the changing nature and perception of terrorism over time. Although not explicitly comparative, a number of themes resonate between the case studies, which will be drawn together in the conclusion to this book. These include the role of migration in radicalisation, the influence of radical family heritages, the experience of imprisonment and the narratives which individuals construct to tell their own terrorist life-stories. It also provides an historically grounded answer to one of the most contentious and heated debates in recent literature on terrorism studies: 'what leads a person to turn to political violence?' In examining the life-narratives of a diverse range of men and women who at some point embraced violence, this book seeks to contribute to a growing understanding of the entire arc of a terrorist lifespan, from radicalisation to mobilisation, to disengagement and beyond. This book will be of much interest to students of political violence, terrorism studies, security studies and politics in general. 410 0$aCass series on political violence. 517 3 $aTerrorist histories :$eindividuals and political violence since the nineteenth century 606 $aTerrorists$vCase studies 606 $aRadicals$vCase studies 606 $aTerrorism$xHistory 606 $aPolitical violence$xHistory 615 0$aTerrorists 615 0$aRadicals 615 0$aTerrorism$xHistory. 615 0$aPolitical violence$xHistory. 676 $a363.3250922 700 $aNic Dhaibheid$b Caoimhe.$0871491 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910149377803321 996 $aTerrorist histories$92210907 997 $aUNINA