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- Offers a major challenge to our understanding of terrorism and the processes by which terrorism comes about, thereby avoiding the definitional issues of 'mainstream' other research on the topic.
- A valuable contribution to figurational sociology, broadening the scope of process sociological research on terrorism.
- Provides a case study of the figurational approach as well as a theoretical examination of terrorism suitable for graduate course study on Elias, violence, criminology, terrorism and international relations
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies on Norbert Elias (PSNE)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Reviews
"By applying sociological insights, most notably influenced by the work of Norbert Elias, to the 250 year development of terrorism in the UK, Michael Dunning has produced an impressively insightful and innovative book. Britain and Terrorism is founded upon a refreshing breadth of expertise that brings to the forefront the social conditions both behind the designation of behaviour as terrorism and the acts that are undertaken by designated terrorists. Consequently this book should be essential reading for anyone who is keen to gain a thoroughly well informed and detached analysis of the concept of terrorism and associated actions.
—Stephen Vertigans, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK
"Dunning offers a long-term view of the changing perception, as well as the practice, of terrorism. It avoids especially the fallacy of trying to understand it through the psychology of the terrorist alone. The book invokes the spirit of Norbert Elias,and is a worthy contribution to that classic tradition."
—Stephen Mennell, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University College Dublin.
Authors and Affiliations
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University of Leicester, Leicester, UK
Michael Dunning
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Britain and Terrorism
Book Subtitle: A Sociological Investigation
Authors: Michael Dunning
Series Title: Palgrave Studies on Norbert Elias
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72300-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-72299-9Published: 23 June 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-72302-6Published: 24 June 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-72300-2Published: 22 June 2021
Series ISSN: 2662-3102
Series E-ISSN: 2662-3110
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 332
Topics: Sociological Theory, Political Sociology, Terrorism and Political Violence, Violence and Crime, Historical Sociology