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On Militancy, Self-reflection, and the Role of the Researcher

Politikon, 2018
ABSTRACTThis paper began in response to Ibrahim Steyn's work on Abahlali baseMjondolo Western Cape, (AbM-WC) – a Cape Town-based social movement I was involved with for a few years.
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Introduction: Conducting Research on Militant Activist Da˓wa in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany

2020
This chapter proposes a relational approach to militant Muslim activism, incorporating Michel Foucault’s concept of counter-conduct as an alternative to the dominant radicalisation perspective. Counter-conducts are forms of resistance intimately tied up with power and, concomitantly, aiming to be governed or ‘conducted’ differently.
Martijn de Koning, Carmen Becker, Ineke Roex   +2 more
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Militating, Teaching, Research

2001
The invention of distributions coincided with the return to life, the end of the war. Our existence became normal once again. At the university, my position came to correspond to my mathematical level. My political activities also took a new turn.
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Narratives shaping the perceptions of the second-generation Afghan diaspora: is Afghanistan a militant, occupied and politically disordered country?

South Asian Diaspora
The second and third generations of the Afghan diaspora, living abroad, hold diverse views about their homeland. Our findings suggest that these individuals have shaped perceptions influenced by their parents’ migration stories, emphasising challenges ...
A. A. Ahsan Ullah, D. Chattoraj
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Research Challenges Involved in Field Research and Interviews Regarding the Militant Jihad, Extremism, and Suicide Terrorism

Democracy and Security, 2009
There are considerable challenges involved in field research studying the militant jihad, extremism and suicide terrorism. Subjects involved in or close to the phenomena are difficult to access.
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Reconceptualizing resistance organizations and outcomes: Introducing the Revolutionary and Militant Organizations dataset (REVMOD)

Journal of Peace Research, 2019
In recent years, scholars of various forms of conflict involving revolutionary and militant organizations (such as terrorism, civil war, and nonviolent contestation) recognized that arbitrary organizational categories and typologies often leave large-N ...
Benjamín Acosta
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Researching Democracy and Terrorism: How Political Access Affects Militant Activity

Security Studies, 2009
Strikingly, little systematic study of the relationship between democracy and terrorism has been undertaken. This article addresses this lacuna by laying some groundwork for further analytical study of the issues. It does so, first, by suggesting a family of independent variables related to the concept of political access that might be employed in this
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Liminal Performativity: Militant Research Between the University and Its Outside

2017
Since late 1960s, various student movements - linked to a broader social struggle beside workers, women, the colonized, and other minorities - have deterritorialized the university and presented it with a new name: the “factory” of knowledge. The new name refers to a great transformation that began in the 1970s, during which the cognitive and the ...
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Militant research in the social sciences

Militant research is an affective, caring and solidary methodology that questions neoliberal academic regimes. Militant research is a call for critical involvement, commitment and contribution to collective research and transformative political praxis.
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Adversarial Behavior in Complex Adaptive Systems: An Overview of ICST’s Research on Competitive Adaptation in Militant Networks

2011
There is widespread agreement among scholars and practitioners that terrorism scholarship suffers from a lack of primary-source field research [1]. The absence of solid ethnographic research has yielded studies that suffer from a lack of rigorous analysis and often result in opinion masquerading as analysis. This dearth of field work stems in part from
John Horgan, Michael Kenney, Mia Bloom, Cale Horne, Kurt Braddock, Peter Vining, Nicole Zinni, Kathleen M. Carley, Michael W. Bigrigg   +8 more
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