Mapping the thematic landscape of<i>Dabiq</i>magazine

Droogan, Julian; Peattie, Shane

doi:10.1080/10357718.2017.1303443

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“…The first was guided by a detailed and rigorous thematic network analysis of the magazine's first 13 issues conducted by Julian Droogan and Shane Peattie to identify the relevant articles that shed light on IS's statebuilding project. 53 The second constituted the thematic organisation of different articles under the statebuilding themes of the provision of security, the provision of basic services, and social cohesion. Each strategic narrative theme was not mutually exclusive because, at times, the same Dabiq article covered different themes.…”

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Statebuilding beyond the West: Exploring Islamic State’s strategic narrative of governance and statebuilding

Silva

Bamber-Zryd

Lemay‐Hébert

2023

Eur. j. of int. secur.

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Strategic narratives are employed by political actors as tools to pursue their goals, constructing a shared meaning of the past, present, and future in order to shape behaviour. Building on discourse analysis of the magazine Dabiq and from in-depth, semi-structured interviews conducted between 2018 and 2019 with IS civilian employees and civilians living in IS-controlled territory, we analyse how IS organised its strategic narrative of governance and statebuilding around three main themes considered as central in the statebuilding literature – the provision of security, the provision of basic services, and social cohesion – and how such a strategic narrative was received by citizens living in IS-controlled territory. We argue that the study of strategic narratives of governance and statebuilding casts light on the factors leading to the success or demise of emergent statebuilding efforts, equally demonstrating how IS’s project is quite conventional when compared to other mainstream statebuilding narratives.

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Statebuilding beyond the West: Exploring Islamic State’s strategic narrative of governance and statebuilding

Silva

Bamber-Zryd

Lemay‐Hébert

2023

Eur. j. of int. secur.

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“…The pledge is made to the 'leader', not to any organisation. On 17 November 2014, Monis posted a brief statement in Arabic on his website: Download extremist sermons and speeches (Rocca, 2017;Winter, 2018) Access online propaganda and recruitment material (Berger, 2015;Mahood and Rane, 2017) Download Islamic State online magazines Dabiq and Rumiyah (Droogan and Peattie, 2017;Jacoby, 2018;Wignell et al, 2018) View violent extremist videos of bombings, shootings and beheadings (Abrahams et al, 2017;Cottee and Cunliffe, 2018) Network with other jihadists by encrypted apps (Shehabat et al, 2017) Develop an online or social media 'foot-print' (Weirman and Alexander, 2018) Broadcast an intent ('leakage') to commit a terrorist attack (Schuurman and Eijkman, 2015) Pledge loyalty (bay'ah) to Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, the caliph of Islamic State (Wagemakers, 2015) Use images of the Islamic State Black Standard flag (Bahari and Hassan, 2014) Leave a terrorist or propaganda message (Zelin, 2015) Leave a martyrdom video (Hafez, 2007;Heck, 2017) Send messages or upload images or video during the attack (Burke, 2016) The wording of the statement reveals more about Monis' narcissism than any professed loyalty to the caliph. Monis pledged allegiance only to 'God', 'his messenger' (the Prophet Muhammad) and 'the Caliphate of the Muslims'.…”

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The Sydney Lindt café siege: The role of the consultant psychiatrist

Scott

2019

Aust N Z J Psychiatry

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Background: In December 2014, after a 16-hour siege of the Lindt café in Sydney, Iranian-born gunman Man Haron Monis shot dead a hostage precipitating the police action which broke the siege. Objective: This paper reviews the demographic and other factual details of Monis as documented by the NSW Coroner’s Inquest and critically analyses the published findings of the Coroner particularly in relation to the role of the psychiatrist who advised senior police and negotiators during the siege. Results: At the time of the siege, there was no formal protocol that delineated the role of a psychiatrist in hostage negotiations. Despite the psychiatrist’s credentials including his extensive experience with siege-hostage incidents and his counter-terrorist training, the Coroner was unfairly critical of the psychiatrist. Conclusion: The Coroner’s censure of the psychiatrist was clearly prejudiced by hindsight bias. During the siege, the psychiatrist properly considered and evaluated all the available intelligence and other information known about the gunman. As the psychiatrist advised, Monis was a narcissist and the siege was not an Islamic State-inspired terrorist attack. Given that he announced he was armed with a bomb, Monis represented a ‘ credible threat’ to the hostages. The psychiatrist’s endorsement of the police strategy to ‘ contain and negotiate’ was prudent in the circumstances. The Coroner’s disparagement of the senior psychiatrist may have the unintended consequence that psychiatrists may be reluctant to assist in hostage-sieges or other critical incidents.

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“…A large number of studies on IS media and Dabiq , in particular, have focused on its narrative and thematic landscape (Droogan and Peattie, 2017; Mahood and Rane, 2017; Martellini and Rao, 2017; Musial, 2016), compared the transitional nature of Islamist narratives between Dabiq and its al-Qaeda predecessor and competitor Inspire (Ingram, 2017; Vallee, 2015) or successor Rumiyah (Azman, 2016; Latif, 2017; Wignell et al, 2017), explored its strategic aims (Gambhir, 2014; Wilbur, 2017), and focused on its target audiences (Colas, 2017). Droogan and Peattie (2017) also provide a valuable snapshot of the theoretical footing of a number of studies, arguing in favour of their ‘comprehensive thematic analysis’ of the magazine. These thematic analyses are indeed extensive, yet their macro-perspective provides little detail on how the numerous strands of the narrative are constructed.…”

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Islamic State’s quest for legitimacy: An analysis of IS media frames in Dabiq magazine

Ubayasiri

2019

Media, War & Conflict

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This article focuses on the media frames of legitimization presented by the Islamist militant group the Islamic State (IS) in their English-language magazine Dabiq to justify their occupation and expansion in Iraq and Syria between June 2014 and July 2017. It argues that, similar to any other militant group, IS faced challenges in establishing, sustaining and projecting legitimacy of both the organization and its militant actions. Focusing on IS narrative frames of legitimacy in Dabiq, this article looks at how the group constructed frame hierarchies that built upon widely accepted higher-order meta-frames of Islamic belief and Westphalian devolution of state power, to lever support for lower-order frames that are of strategic advantage to IS. The author agues such narratives of legitimacy were vital in IS’s attempt to undermine the authority of the sovereign states they occupied, and were necessary to challenge the monopoly of state violence in order to legitimize its own use of strategic violence both inside the self-proclaimed caliphate and in its expansion.

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Mapping the thematic landscape ofDabiqmagazine

Cited by 22 publications

References 15 publications

Statebuilding beyond the West: Exploring Islamic State’s strategic narrative of governance and statebuilding

Statebuilding beyond the West: Exploring Islamic State’s strategic narrative of governance and statebuilding

The Sydney Lindt café siege: The role of the consultant psychiatrist

Islamic State’s quest for legitimacy: An analysis of IS media frames in Dabiq magazine

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