TY - CHAP
T1 - Stories of Jihadism. The radicalisation process and its plausibility
AU - Mezzetti, Giulia
AU - Introini, Fabio
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - The “plausibility” of the jihadist mission is the focus of the analysis presented
in this contribution, in which we will analyse some jihadi “stories” in the
light of a precise theoretical frame and of a perspective that we define as ecological.
According to this approach, which was inspired by Bateson (1977) and based
on Latour’s Actor-Network Theory (1998; 2005) as well as on the theories of
complexity (Morin, 2001), the ideas, or world visions, such as the “radical” ones
considered here, do not exist in an autonomous and self-referencing sphere, like
fixed and permanent elements, predetermined for ever more. Their “story”, like
their ability to put their beliefs into practice for their actions, is connected to relating
to people, organisations, players and symbolic and material resources to
which they manage to bind themselves and which in turn they help to spread.
During this process, these same ideas, following unavoidable adjustments and
“translations” which modify and sometimes also betray their meanings, undergo
a strengthening process by “thickening”, becoming so dense that they “become a
reality”. Thus events or phenomena are not (a priori) plausible, but become so, or, in other words, “facts”, objects, whole “worlds” progressively turn into reality (Latour, 1998). Regarding the topic under analysis here, therefore, we intend to discuss radicalisation as a process that is not plausible from the outset, but becomes so, the more “radical” visions of the world take shape and become real, acquiring “sense” and “plausibility” in the eyes of a growing number of people.
AB - The “plausibility” of the jihadist mission is the focus of the analysis presented
in this contribution, in which we will analyse some jihadi “stories” in the
light of a precise theoretical frame and of a perspective that we define as ecological.
According to this approach, which was inspired by Bateson (1977) and based
on Latour’s Actor-Network Theory (1998; 2005) as well as on the theories of
complexity (Morin, 2001), the ideas, or world visions, such as the “radical” ones
considered here, do not exist in an autonomous and self-referencing sphere, like
fixed and permanent elements, predetermined for ever more. Their “story”, like
their ability to put their beliefs into practice for their actions, is connected to relating
to people, organisations, players and symbolic and material resources to
which they manage to bind themselves and which in turn they help to spread.
During this process, these same ideas, following unavoidable adjustments and
“translations” which modify and sometimes also betray their meanings, undergo
a strengthening process by “thickening”, becoming so dense that they “become a
reality”. Thus events or phenomena are not (a priori) plausible, but become so, or, in other words, “facts”, objects, whole “worlds” progressively turn into reality (Latour, 1998). Regarding the topic under analysis here, therefore, we intend to discuss radicalisation as a process that is not plausible from the outset, but becomes so, the more “radical” visions of the world take shape and become real, acquiring “sense” and “plausibility” in the eyes of a growing number of people.
KW - islam
KW - jihadism
KW - plausibility
KW - radicalization
KW - islam
KW - jihadism
KW - plausibility
KW - radicalization
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/271263
UR - https://www.ismu.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/xxii-italian-report-on-migrations_01-06-17.pdf
M3 - Chapter
SN - 978-88-386-9418-9
SP - 89
EP - 104
BT - The Twenty-second Report on Migrations 2016
ER -