Description
| Product ID: | 9780197653012 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Causes and Consequences of Terrorism |
| Title: | Becoming Jihadis |
| Subtitle: | Radicalization and Commitment in Southeast Asia |
| Authors: | Author: Julie Chernov Hwang |
| Page Count: | 216 |
| Subjects: | Social, group or collective psychology, Social, group or collective psychology, Politics and government, Politics & government |
| Description: | This book charts how and why individuals become committed members and participants of violent extremist groups. The book draws heavily on 175 interviews with current and former members of 14 Islamist extremist groups in Indonesia and three in the Philippines between 2010 and 2019, as well as supporting documentation from draft autobiographies of militants, public interviews, and court depositions. It unpacks the joining process from initial engagement to commitment to participating in high-risk activism. In so doing, it highlights motivations for joining; internal and external pathways into extremist groups; how members and potential members express commitment; and how militants become involved in paramilitary training, jihad and terrorist attacks. Why does someone join an extremist group? What are the pathways via which individuals join such groups? How does one show commitment to an extremist group? Why does someone participate in acts of terrorism? Drawing on 175 interviews with current and former members of Islamist extremist groups in Indonesia and the Philippines, Becoming Jihadis: Radicalization and Commitment in Southeast Asia answers these questions by exploring the socio-emotional underpinnings of joining an extremist group. This book argues that social ties play a critical role at every juncture in the joining process, from initial engagement to commitment to participation in jihad experiences, paramilitary training, and terrorism. It unpacks the process by which members build a sense of community, connection, solidarity, and brotherhood; how they come to trust and love one another; and how ideology functions as a binding agent, not a cause. Becoming Jihadis draws its conclusions from broad patterns data based on nearly a decade of iterated interviews with current and former members of Islamist extremist groups between 2010 and 2019, as well as partial life histories detailing the journeys of men and women who joined Indonesian and Filipino extremist groups. This book makes a unique contribution to the literature on terrorism and radicalization for students, practitioners, and policymakers. |
| Imprint Name: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Publisher Name: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-05-12 |