Full Description
Using an aesthetic culture and techniques termed as jihadi cool, terrorist groups have been able to recruit members from around the world, so how do we begin to respond?
This book analyzes the rhetorical and ethical dynamics of a culture of jihadi cool/chic, and why these rhetorical and aesthetic techniques have been such a powerful recruitment force for particular transnational terrorist groups. The author uses an evidence-based approach, with frameworks derived from law, politics, philosophy, rhetoric, feminist theory, and communication studies, to examine various attempts to construct counter-narratives to the jihadi cool master narrative. The book closes with an examination of how to begin to respond critically and effectively to the lure of jihadi cool.
Contents
Foreword by Harry Keyishian
1: The Rhetoric and Aesthetic of "Jihadi Cool/Chic"
2: Raza v. New York: An Attempt at a Counter-Narrative with Mixed Results
3: Countering Jihadi Chic: The Myth of the Jihadi Bride and the Yazidi Genocide
4: Toward a Poethics of Witnessing
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