Disentangling Jihad, Political Violence and Media / ed. by Robert Dörre, Simone Pfeifer, Christoph Günther

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction: Disentangling Jihad, Political Violence and Media -- Part I Notions of Jihad and the Production of Knowledge -- 1 The Portrayal of Jihadi-Salafism: The Role of Knowledge Production in Fabricating a Global Enemy -- 2 Jihad Goes to Court: The Invocation of Islamic Idioms in Terrorism Prosecutions -- 3 'Look a certain way in order to resist': An Analysis of German Short Videos against Islamism -- 4 Criminalising Critical Scholarship: Austria's Intelligence Service and Islamophobia Studies -- 5 Will the Real Jihadi Please Stand Up? On 'Jihadism' as a Conceptual Weapon -- Part II Audiovisual Mediations and Formations of Jihad -- 6 Terrorism Education in ISIS's Use of Children's Mobile Apps -- 7 From ISIS to the AfD: Ultraist Rhetoric and Visuality in Alt-Orientalist Concurrence -- 8 The Sound and Sense of Jihad: Revisiting the Notion of Jihad in Jihadi-themed Arabic Chants -- 9 Documenting the Yazidi Survival of Genocide: Aesthetics and Politics between Sabaya, the Murad Code and The Last Girl -- Part III Ethnographic Perspectives on Imaginations and Materialities -- 10 Talking Jihad: The Interactive Construction of a Racialised Threat in the Netherlands -- 11 Fragments of Utopia: Political and Religious Emigrations from France to Syria -- 12 Acting with God: Divine Interruption and Practices of Jihad -- 13 Secular Normativity in Anti-jihad Discourse in France -- Part IV Affective Archives -- Enduring Sounds and Images -- 14 An Epilogue of Images: On Theorising and Archiving Daesh's Videos of Violence -- 15 Remediating Images of War: Cultural Practices behind Syrian Digital Archives after 2011 -- 16 Critical Spectatorship, Violent Care -- Afterword: One Person's Terrorist is Another Person's Freedom Fighter, One Person's Jihad is Another's Crusade: Reflections on the Tokyo Reels Film Festival by Subversive Film at the Documenta 15, 2022 -- Index

Explores how Jihad, political violence and audio-visual media are entangled in particular ways as discursive formationsFosters critical perspectives on the invocation of a narrow understanding of jihad and political violence in different social contextsPoints to the operation of media and aesthetic means to articulate or defy notions of jihad in the context of political violenceComprises 16 case studies on forms of knowledge production, aesthetic manifestations, socio-political enactments, and archival practices that shape the entanglement of jihad, political violence, and mediaPresents empirically-grounded research from the perspective of Anthropology, Art History, Cultural Studies, Islamic Studies, Media Studies, and Political ScienceAdvances reflections on knowledge production and ethical challenges of research in this fieldThe entanglement of Jihad, Political Violence, and Media has determined the lives of Muslims in Europe and the US over the past 20 years. This book unravels the nexus of these elements, to critically examine how their conjunction is perpetuated, reproduced, or disputed. In 16 case studies, the contributors critically reflect on the identification of jihad with political violence, address the academic, legal, political and broader public production of knowledge on this topic, examine the aesthetic formations involved in the mediation and reaffirmation of this narrow understanding, explore the experiential worlds of people whose ideas and actions are labelled as and affected by notions of violent jihad, and illuminate the institutional and media contexts (e.g. of archives) in which an entanglement of jihad and political violence takes effect, with profound consequences.This volume decentres dominant discourses on so-called jihadist actors and deradicalization contexts to offer more nuanced understandings of the political and socio-cultural contexts