Onlife Extremism: Dynamic Integration of Digital and Physical Spaces in Radicalization

Valentini, Daniele; Lorusso, Anna Maria; Stephan, Achim

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00524

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“…More recently, and especially since 9/11 and the accelerated development of the world wide web, a substantial amount of literature has seen the light discussing relations between the ways in which people understand conflict and visual media Marsden and Savigny 2009;Bräuchler 2013;Nanninga 2019). Although the direct impact of modern media visualities on human aggression is disputed (Freedman 2013), there is little doubt that the epistemology of human conflict is influenced by visual media, as has for example clearly been shown by the rise of islamophobia in the wake of 9/11, or by the impact of online films about the Syrian war on mostly young Muslims (Vacca 2020;Valentini, Lorusso, and Stephan 2020). Seeing mediated destruction, and watching mediated suffering and violence, contributes to how people understand conflict situations.…”

Section: Violence and Thingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Material Perspectives on Religion, Conflict, and Violence

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Meinema²

2022

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Cover illustration: The picture shows Sharhani, a border post between Iran and Iraq. This area witnessed one of heaviest confrontations during the war between these countries. Nearly five hundred unclaimed remains of combatants were found in this area. Volunteers try to match the bones, form a body, and package them. The body-sets are kept in the shrine we see in the picture, waiting for an appropriate political moment for propaganda in favor of the Islamic Republic. But the incomplete bodies are kept in the two concrete bunkers which are very spooky because it is just filled with the stack of human bones. The volunteers also collect all rusty military equipment to keep the militarized feeling alive. Photographer: Younes Saramifar.

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Section: Violence and Thingsmentioning

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Material Perspectives on Religion, Conflict, and Violence

Liere¹,

Meinema²

2022

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“…The fourth and final article on gender and populism continues the focus on technology, where Gunhild Hoogensen Gjørv explores the interaction and integration of technology into human life. People's lives are more integrated with the digital world than ever before, to the extent that it is no longer a question of being online but being in our "onlife" [43,44]. Technological developments from mechanical to digital capabilities have not only made many people's lives easier (eg reduced task time, quicker communication, etc), but have simultaneously become integrated in human life.…”

Section: Gender In Populism and Populist Movementsmentioning

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Re-thinking Violence, Everyday and (In)Security: Feminist/Intersectional Interventions

Nyborg

Singh

Gjørv

2022

Journal of Human Security

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This special gender issue brings to the fore a renewed focus on the importance of feminist intersectional analyses in understanding violence and (in)security in the everyday. It does so through the examination of several cases across the globe. The first set of articles examines how gender is understood in the context of police reform initiatives in post-conflict contexts, where despite political peace agreements, many forms of violence and insecurity continue in the everyday. The second set of articles focuses on gender in populist movement, and particularly foregrounds an intersectional lens. The intersections of race, religion, class, caste, geographies and gender raise important questions when analyzing populist projects, including how the rise of populism may indicate a growing dissonance between the domestic and international, and how this is relevant to understanding the changing nature of violence and (in)security in this changing global era. Taken together, the two sets of articles give a rich account of the significance of incorporating a more complex understanding of gender in gaining better insight into contemporary societal processes.

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“…More recently, and especially since 9/11 and the accelerated development of the world wide web, a substantial amount of literature has seen the light discussing relations between the ways in which people understand conflict and visual media (Žarkov 2008;Marsden and Savigny 2009;Tulloch and Blood 2012;Bräuchler 2013;Nanninga 2019). Although the direct impact of modern media visualities on human aggression is disputed (Freedman 2013), there is little doubt that the epistemology of human conflict is influenced by visual media, as has for example clearly been shown by the rise of islamophobia in the wake of 9/11, or by the impact of online films about the Syrian war on mostly young Muslims (Vacca 2020;Valentini, Lorusso, and Stephan 2020). Seeing mediated destruction, and watching mediated suffering and violence, contributes to how people understand conflict situations.…”

Section: Violence and Thingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Material Religion, Conflict, and Violence

Liere¹,

Meinema²

2022

Material Perspectives on Religion, Conflict, and Violence

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This volume explores relations between materiality, conflict, and religion. Although connections between religion and materiality, and between conflict and religion are currently widely studied in academia, the intersection between religion, conflict, and materiality remains underexplored. This is, as we will show in this introduction, not surprising. Scholarly understandings of conflict are often focused on political, historical, and socio-psychological models that tend to obscure how perspectives on materiality may contribute to efforts to comprehend conflict. We seek to foreground relations between materiality, conflict, and violence by using insights from different academic fields like religious studies, conflict studies, and anthropology. Doing so, we argue, creates possibilities to understand how things matter in religion-related conflict, what they do, and how they contribute to how people understand the causes, dynamics, and effects of violent conflict. As such, this volume addresses the following key questions: How do religious actors engage and mobilize 'things' to physically and symbolically position themselves in conflict situations? What role do sensational experiences of violence have in religionrelated violent conflict and in processes of reconciliation? How do things mediate 'presence' of divinity/ies, spirits, powers within conflict situations? And finally: how do things contribute to religious infrastructures that play a role in violence and conflict dynamics?Building on insights developed in different academic fields, particularly the so-called 'material turn' in religious studies, and research on the role of religion in violent conflict, this introduction sets the stage for the development of conceptual and methodological directions in the study of religion-related violent conflict. Specifically, we aim to discuss the questions introduced above by focusing on two ways in which the intersection between materiality, religion, and (violent) conflict can be understood, namely (1) how conflicts arise around specific things that symbolize what particular religious communities hold 'dear' and 'special' and/or that mediate divine presence, and (2) how 'religious infrastructures' -understood as the material arrangements on which (religious) practices of particular religious communities depend -are shaped by, and simultaneously affect conflict and violence.

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Onlife Extremism: Dynamic Integration of Digital and Physical Spaces in Radicalization

Cited by 30 publications

References 83 publications

Material Perspectives on Religion, Conflict, and Violence

Material Perspectives on Religion, Conflict, and Violence

Re-thinking Violence, Everyday and (In)Security: Feminist/Intersectional Interventions

Material Religion, Conflict, and Violence

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