Jihadi Audiovisuality and its Entanglements: Meanings, Aesthetics, Appropriations

ISBN-13: 9781474467520 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 344 str.

Christoph Gunther;Simone Pfeifer

Opis

ISIS is often described as a terrorist organisation that uses social media to empower its supporters and reinforce its message. Through 12 case studies, this book examines the different ways in which Jihadi groups and their supporters use visualisation, sound production and aesthetic means to articulate their cause in online as well as offline contexts. Divided into 4 thematic sections, the chapters probe Jihadi appropriation of traditional and popular cultural expressions and show how, in turn, political activists appropriate extremist media to oppose and resist the propaganda. By conceptualising militant Islamist audiovisual productions as part of global media aesthetics and practices, the authors shed light on how religious actors, artists, civil society activists, global youth, political forces, security agencies and researchers engage with mediated manifestations of Jihadi ideology to deconstruct, reinforce, defy or oppose the messages.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Jihadi Audiovisuality and its Entanglements: A Conceptual Framework, Christoph Günther and Simone Pfeifer; A: Ethical Challenges of Empirically Grounded Research on Jihadism; 1. On Speaking, Remaining Silent and Being Heard: Framing Research, Positionality and Publics in the Jihadi Field, Martijn de Koning, Annelies Moors, Aysha Navest; 2. Designing Research on Radicalisation using Social Media Content: Data Protection Regulations as Challenges and Opportunities, Manjana Sold, Hande Abay Gaspar, Julian Junk; 3. Ethics in Gender Online Research: A Facebook Case Study, Claudia Carvalho; B: Visualising Jihadi Ideology and Action; 4. Appropriation in Islamic State Propaganda: A Theoretical and Analytical Framework of Types and Dimensions, Bernd Zywietz and Yorck Beese; 5. Visual Performativity of Violence: Power and Retaliatory Humiliation in Islamic State (IS) Beheading Videos between 2014 and 2017, Michael Krona; 6. From the Darkness into the Light. Narratives of Conversion in Jihadi Videos, Christoph Günther; C: Appropriating and Contesting Jihadi Audiovisuality; 7. Artivism, Politics and Islam – An Empirical-Theoretical Approach to Artistic Strategies and Aesthetic Counter-Narratives that Defy Collective Stigmatisation, Monika Salzbrunn; 8. Re-enacting Violence: Contesting Public Spheres with Appropriations of IS Execution Videos, Simone Pfeifer, Larissa-Diana Fuhrmann, Patricia Wevers; 9. ‘You’re against Dawla, but you’re Listening to their Nasheeds?’ Appropriating Jihadi Audio-Visualities in the Online Streetwork Project Jamal al-Khatib – My Path! Rami Ali, Džemal Šibljakovi?, Felix Lippe, Ulrich Neuburg, Florian Neuburg; D: Anashid: Soundscapes of Religio-Politcal Experience; 10. ‘Nash?d’ between Islamic Chanting and Jihadi Hymns: Continuities and Transformations; Ines Weinrich; 11. An?sh?d at the Crossroad between the Organizational and the Private, Karin Berg; 12. Contested Chants: The Nash?d S?ali?l al-S?awa?rim and its Appropriations, Alexandra Dick and Larissa-Diana Fuhrmann; Index.