Disentangling Jihad, Political Violence and Media
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2023), xxvi, 420 pp.
Contains illustrations, index
ISBN 978-1-3995-2381-3 (pdf); 978-1-3995-2379-0 (hbk)
CC BY-NC
"The entanglement of Jihad, Political Violence, and Media has determined the lives of Muslims in Europe and the US over the past 20 years. This book unravels the nexus of these elements, to critically examine how their conjunction is perpetuated, reproduced, or disputed. In 16 case studies, the contributors critically reflect on the identification of jihad with political violence, address the academic, legal, political and broader public production of knowledge on this topic, examine the aesthetic formations involved in the mediation and reaffirmation of this narrow understanding, explore the experiential worlds of people whose ideas and actions are labelled as and affected by notions of violent jihad, and illuminate the institutional and media contexts (e.g. of archives) in which an entanglement of jihad and political violence takes effect, with profound consequences." (Publisher description)
Introduction: Disentangling Jihad, Political Violence and Media / Christoph Günther, Robert Dörre and Simone Pfeifer, 1
PART I: NOTIONS OF JIHAD AND THE PRODUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE
1 The Portrayal of Jihadi-Salafism: The Role of Knowledge Production in Fabricating a Global Enemy / Jaan S. Islam, 31
2 Jihad Goes to Court: The Invocation of Islamic Idioms in Terrorism Prosecutions / Nicole Nguyen, 53
3 'Look a certain way in order to resist': An Analysis of German Short Videos against Islamism / Sindyan Qasem, 76
4 Criminalising Critical Scholarship: Austria's Intelligence Service and Islamophobia Studies / Farid Hafez, 99
5 Will the Real Jihadi Please Stand Up? On 'Jihadism' as a Conceptual Weapon / Darryl Li, 119
PART II: AUDIOVISUAL MEDIATIONS AND FORMATIONS OF JIHAD
6 Terrorism Education in ISIS's Use of Children's Mobile Apps / Ahmed Al-Rawi, 141
7 From ISIS to the AfD: Ultraist Rhetoric and Visuality in Alt-Orientalist Concurrence / Christiane Gruber, 158
8 The Sound and Sense of Jihad: Revisiting the Notion of Jihad in Jihadi-themed Arabic Chants / Kurstin Gatt, 186
9 Documenting the Yazidi Survival of Genocide: Aesthetics and Politics between Sabaya, the Murad Code and The Last Girl / Sebastian Köthe, 211
PART III: ETHNOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVES ON IMAGINATIONS AND MATERIALITIES
10 Talking Jihad: The Interactive Construction of a Racialised Threat in the Netherlands / Martijn de Koning, 237
11 Fragments of Utopia: Political and Religious Emigrations from France to Syria / Hamza Esmili, 261
12 Acting with God: Divine Interruption and Practices of Jihad / Anja Kublitz, 282
13 Secular Normativity in Anti-jihad Discourse in France / Aïcha Bounaga, 305
PART IV: AFFECTIVE ARCHIVES - ENDURING SOUNDS AND IMAGES
14 An Epilogue of Images: On Theorising and Archiving Daesh's Videos of Violence / Robert Dörre, 329
15 Remediating Images of War: Cultural Practices behind Syrian Digital Archives after 2011 / Enrico De Angelis and Yazan Badran, 360
16 Critical Spectatorship, Violent Care / Kevin B. Lee, 383
Afterword: One Person's Terrorist is Another Person's Freedom Fighter, One Person's Jihad is Another's Crusade: Reflections on the Tokyo Reels Film Festival by Subversive Film at the Documenta 15, 2022 / Wendy M. K. Shaw, 395
PART I: NOTIONS OF JIHAD AND THE PRODUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE
1 The Portrayal of Jihadi-Salafism: The Role of Knowledge Production in Fabricating a Global Enemy / Jaan S. Islam, 31
2 Jihad Goes to Court: The Invocation of Islamic Idioms in Terrorism Prosecutions / Nicole Nguyen, 53
3 'Look a certain way in order to resist': An Analysis of German Short Videos against Islamism / Sindyan Qasem, 76
4 Criminalising Critical Scholarship: Austria's Intelligence Service and Islamophobia Studies / Farid Hafez, 99
5 Will the Real Jihadi Please Stand Up? On 'Jihadism' as a Conceptual Weapon / Darryl Li, 119
PART II: AUDIOVISUAL MEDIATIONS AND FORMATIONS OF JIHAD
6 Terrorism Education in ISIS's Use of Children's Mobile Apps / Ahmed Al-Rawi, 141
7 From ISIS to the AfD: Ultraist Rhetoric and Visuality in Alt-Orientalist Concurrence / Christiane Gruber, 158
8 The Sound and Sense of Jihad: Revisiting the Notion of Jihad in Jihadi-themed Arabic Chants / Kurstin Gatt, 186
9 Documenting the Yazidi Survival of Genocide: Aesthetics and Politics between Sabaya, the Murad Code and The Last Girl / Sebastian Köthe, 211
PART III: ETHNOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVES ON IMAGINATIONS AND MATERIALITIES
10 Talking Jihad: The Interactive Construction of a Racialised Threat in the Netherlands / Martijn de Koning, 237
11 Fragments of Utopia: Political and Religious Emigrations from France to Syria / Hamza Esmili, 261
12 Acting with God: Divine Interruption and Practices of Jihad / Anja Kublitz, 282
13 Secular Normativity in Anti-jihad Discourse in France / Aïcha Bounaga, 305
PART IV: AFFECTIVE ARCHIVES - ENDURING SOUNDS AND IMAGES
14 An Epilogue of Images: On Theorising and Archiving Daesh's Videos of Violence / Robert Dörre, 329
15 Remediating Images of War: Cultural Practices behind Syrian Digital Archives after 2011 / Enrico De Angelis and Yazan Badran, 360
16 Critical Spectatorship, Violent Care / Kevin B. Lee, 383
Afterword: One Person's Terrorist is Another Person's Freedom Fighter, One Person's Jihad is Another's Crusade: Reflections on the Tokyo Reels Film Festival by Subversive Film at the Documenta 15, 2022 / Wendy M. K. Shaw, 395
