Watching ISIS: How Young Adults Engage with Official English-Language ISIS Videos

Cottee, Simon; Cunliffe, Jack

doi:10.1080/1057610x.2018.1444955

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“…A number of related issues, including anxieties about ‘radicalization’ (the susceptibility to commit, or engage in processes contributing to, acts of terrorism), power‐infused and antagonistic relationships between some Muslim and non‐Muslim prisoners, and growing concerns about ‘gang culture’ and violence in prisons, make these matters particularly vexed, for prisoners and for staff. Violent criminality, conversion to Islam, and extremism may be related, in some real ways (see, e.g., Cottee ), but the precise links are, we argue, unclear and overdrawn. Whilst long‐term, White Category A prisoners are still subject to the kinds of security reporting described by King and McDermott, what is distinctive about current prison practices is that being Black and being Muslim are both ‘added risks’.…”

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The new subversive geranium: some notes on the management of additional troubles in maximum security prisons

Liebling

Williams

2017

British Journal of Sociology

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In this paper, we revisit King and McDermott's 1990 article on the social construction of 'control problem' prisoners and their management in high security prisons, in the light of our recent research on the location and building of trust in contemporary high security prisons. We examine how religious and race identities are now deeply implicated in the construction of risk, and we describe the procedures for and some of the consequences of managing the new risks of radicalization and extremist violence in prison. The analysis is based on observations and interviews with staff and prisoners in two main and two supplementary maximum-security prisons in England and Wales.

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The new subversive geranium: some notes on the management of additional troubles in maximum security prisons

Liebling

Williams

2017

British Journal of Sociology

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“…Now, "the time had come for another event to … bring division to the world and destroy the Grayzone". (Atran, 2015) The challenge, then, is "to provide an alternative means of satisfying the quest for glory that motivates those who join in Isis's barbarism" (Atran, 2014) and the appeal of the illustration of this narrative (Cottee & Cunliffe, 2018), not to focus on constructing a counter-narrative which likely pours gas on the revolutionary flame of ISIS.…”

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The containment of the Islamic State: A realist case to engage a hybrid actor

Troy

2019

Contemporary Security Policy

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Next to military means, causing disruption and interdiction, Western and local powers also relied on policies of containment to halt the expansion of the Islamic State's territorial strongholds. Yet, a Cold War state-based strategy of containment seems not apt to counter a transformed Islamic State. This article, first, examines why containing the Islamic State was successful in the past. Second, the article argues that the Islamic State can still be contained if containment addresses the Islamic State's hybrid nature rather than convulsively looking for the transferability of past containment aspects. In particular, this requires a focus on the struggle for power of the opponent and a foreign policy of restraint. Finally, the article proposes three angles to contain the Islamic State. Each angle exploits the persisting characteristics of the Islamic State as a revolutionary actor with internal contradictions and promulgating specific narratives which containment can engage.

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“…The Internet has dramatically transformed the dynamic of Islamist terrorism (Gill et al, 2017). A study of 112 Islamic State-related terrorists found that more than 80% accessed Islamic State propaganda including speeches by terrorist leaders and execution videos (Cottee and Cunliffe, 2018). Extremist dogma and even technical information including online manuals for bomb-making are easily accessible on the Internet (Sageman, 2008).…”

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The Sydney Lindt café siege: The role of the consultant psychiatrist

Scott

2019

Aust N Z J Psychiatry

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Background: In December 2014, after a 16-hour siege of the Lindt café in Sydney, Iranian-born gunman Man Haron Monis shot dead a hostage precipitating the police action which broke the siege. Objective: This paper reviews the demographic and other factual details of Monis as documented by the NSW Coroner’s Inquest and critically analyses the published findings of the Coroner particularly in relation to the role of the psychiatrist who advised senior police and negotiators during the siege. Results: At the time of the siege, there was no formal protocol that delineated the role of a psychiatrist in hostage negotiations. Despite the psychiatrist’s credentials including his extensive experience with siege-hostage incidents and his counter-terrorist training, the Coroner was unfairly critical of the psychiatrist. Conclusion: The Coroner’s censure of the psychiatrist was clearly prejudiced by hindsight bias. During the siege, the psychiatrist properly considered and evaluated all the available intelligence and other information known about the gunman. As the psychiatrist advised, Monis was a narcissist and the siege was not an Islamic State-inspired terrorist attack. Given that he announced he was armed with a bomb, Monis represented a ‘ credible threat’ to the hostages. The psychiatrist’s endorsement of the police strategy to ‘ contain and negotiate’ was prudent in the circumstances. The Coroner’s disparagement of the senior psychiatrist may have the unintended consequence that psychiatrists may be reluctant to assist in hostage-sieges or other critical incidents.

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Watching ISIS: How Young Adults Engage with Official English-Language ISIS Videos

Cited by 20 publications

References 7 publications

The new subversive geranium: some notes on the management of additional troubles in maximum security prisons

The new subversive geranium: some notes on the management of additional troubles in maximum security prisons

The containment of the Islamic State: A realist case to engage a hybrid actor

The Sydney Lindt café siege: The role of the consultant psychiatrist

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