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OverviewWhat drives some to violence against the state while others, living in the same place at the same time, turn to nonviolent resistance? And in this age of Islamist terrorism and Islamophobia, does the practice of Islam encourage violence? Structural explanations of violence fail to answer these questions. In Whether to Kill, Stephanie Dornschneider applies the methodology of cognitive mapping to study the beliefs that motivate individuals to take up arms or engage in nonviolent activism. Using a double-paired comparison with control groups, Dornschneider conducted extensive ethnographic interviews with violent and nonviolent Muslims and non-Muslims in both Egypt and Germany, speaking with them about their lives and contexts and what drove them to resist the state. After coding their responses into cognitive maps, which make visible the connections between an individual's beliefs and decisions for behavior, Dornschneider used a computer model to analyze the huge number of possible factors driving people to choose or not choose violence, eventually identifying ten reasoning processes by which violent individuals can be differentiated from nonviolent ones. Whether to Kill takes a new approach to understanding terrorism. Through first-person accounts of those involved in both violent and nonviolent action against the state-from members of groups as diverse as the Muslim Brotherhood, al-Jihad, the Socialist German Student Union, and the Red Army Faction-then analyzing that data via cognitive mapping, Stephanie Dornschneider has opened up new perspectives on what drives people to-or away from-the use of political violence. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Stephanie DornschneiderPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.635kg ISBN: 9780812247701ISBN 10: 0812247701 Pages: 328 Publication Date: 11 December 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. A Cognitive Mapping Approach to Political Violence Chapter 2. Interviewing Violent and Nonviolent Individuals Chapter 3. A Short History of the Individuals' Groups Chapter 4. Constructing Cognitive Maps About Political Violence Chapter 5. A Computational Analysis of Violent and Nonviolent Activism Chapter 6. Alternative Worlds Without Violence Conclusion Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Notes Bibliography Index AcknowledgmentsReviewsStephanie Dornschneider makes several innovative contributions to the field. By focusing on the perspective of terrorists-using personal interviews with those terrorists, something very few others have attempted-and a novel use of cognitive mapping, she analyzes the thought processes of terrorism. The book will appeal to those interested in Egypt, Germany, terrorism, social movements, political violence, and methodological innovation. -Marc Sageman, Foreign Policy Research Institute and author of Understanding Terror Networks and Leaderless Jihad Stephanie Dornschneider makes several innovative contributions to the field. By focusing on the perspective of terrorists-using personal interviews with those terrorists, something very few others have attempted-and a novel use of cognitive mapping, she analyzes the thought processes of terrorism. The book will appeal to those interested in Egypt, Germany, terrorism, social movements, political violence, and methodological innovation. * Marc Sageman, Foreign Policy Research Institute and author of <i>Understanding Terror Networks</i> and <i>Leaderless Jihad</i> * """Stephanie Dornschneider makes several innovative contributions to the field. By focusing on the perspective of terrorists-using personal interviews with those terrorists, something very few others have attempted-and a novel use of cognitive mapping, she analyzes the thought processes of terrorism. The book will appeal to those interested in Egypt, Germany, terrorism, social movements, political violence, and methodological innovation."" * Marc Sageman, Foreign Policy Research Institute and author of <i>Understanding Terror Networks</i> and <i>Leaderless Jihad</i> *" Author InformationStephanie Dornschneider teaches in the Department of Economics and International Studies at the University of Buckingham. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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