Full Description
ISIS is often described as a terrorist organisation that uses social media to empower its supporters and reinforce its message. Through 12 case studies, this book examines the different ways in which Jihadi groups and their supporters use visualisation, sound production and aesthetic means to articulate their cause in online as well as offline contexts. Divided into 4 thematic sections, the chapters probe Jihadi appropriation of traditional and popular cultural expressions and show how, in turn, political activists appropriate extremist media to oppose and resist the propaganda. By conceptualising militant Islamist audiovisual productions as part of global media aesthetics and practices, the authors shed light on how religious actors, artists, civil society activists, global youth, political forces, security agencies and researchers engage with mediated manifestations of Jihadi ideology to deconstruct, reinforce, defy or oppose the messages.
Contents
Introduction: Jihadi Audiovisuality and its Entanglements: A Conceptual Framework Christoph Günther and Simone Pfeifer
Part A: Ethical Challenges of Empirically Grounded Research on Jihadism
1. On Speaking, Remaining Silent and Being Heard: Framing Research, Positionality and Publics in the Jihadi FieldMartijn de Koning, Annelies Moors, Aysha Navest
2. Designing Research on Radicalisation using Social Media Content: Data Protection Regulations as Challenges and OpportunitiesManjana Sold, Hande Abay Gaspar, Julian Junk
3. Ethics in Gender Online Research: A Facebook Case StudyClaudia Carvalho
Part B: Visualizing Jihadi Ideology and Action
4. Appropriation in Islamic State Propaganda: A Theoretical and Analytical Framework of Types and DimensionsBernd Zywietz and Yorck Beese
5. Visual Performativity of Violence: Power and Retaliatory Humiliation in Islamic State (IS) Beheading Videos between 2014 and 2017Michael Krona
6. From the Darkness into the Light. Narratives of Conversion in Jihadi VideosChristoph Günther
Part C: Appropriating and Contesting Jihadi Audiovisuality
7. Artivism, Politics and Islam - An Empirical-Theoretical Approach to Artistic Strategies and Aesthetic Counter-Narratives that Defy Collective StigmatisationMonika Salzbrunn
8. Re-enacting Violence: Contesting Public Spheres with Appropriations of IS Execution VideosSimone Pfeifer, Larissa-Diana Fuhrmann, Patricia Wevers
9. 'You're against Dawla, but you're Listening to their Nasheeds?' Appropriating Jihadi Audio-Visualities in the Online Streetwork Project Jamal al-Khatib - My Path!Rami Ali, Džemal Šibljaković, Felix Lippe, Ulrich Neuburg, Florian Neuburg
Part D: Anāshīd: Soundscapes of Religio-Political Experience
10. 'Nashīd' between Islamic Chanting and Jihadi Hymns: Continuities and TransformationsInes Weinrich
11. Anāshīd at the Crossroad between the Organizational and the PrivateKarin Berg
12. Contested Chants: The Nashīd Ṣalī̄l al-Ṣawārim and its AppropriationsAlexandra Dick and Larissa-Diana Fuhrmann
Index
