'Radicalisation' and 'countering radicalisation' : the emergence and expansion of a contentious concept
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- Rik Coolsaet (UGent)
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- With the string of attacks that struck Europe in 2004 and 2005, ‘radicalisation’ has become the primary prism for understanding the motivations that lead individuals to embrace terrorism. Terrorism as the result of a ‘radicalisation process’ is now often an unquestioned axiom and considered self-evident. But from the outset, scholars have been warning about the contentious and ambiguous nature of this new concept. This has not prevented radicalisation studies from becoming a thriving field of research, with an increasing number of scholarly disciplines involved and a widening research agenda, as well as the holy grail of many counterterrorism policies. With hindsight, however, the new idiom has been less of a conceptual breakthrough than initially anticipated. The absence of a consensus definition of radicalisation and diverging hypotheses about the nature of its drivers have fuelled several substantial conceptual disagreements, sometimes leading to febrile scholarly debates. Inevitably, these debates have direct relevance for the elaboration of policies devised to counter radicalisation.
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-01HW5P756VZG25W2HZGGD5GCP1
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- Coolsaet, Rik. “‘Radicalisation’ and ’Countering Radicalisation’ : The Emergence and Expansion of a Contentious Concept.” The Routledge Handbook on Radicalisation and Countering Radicalisation, edited by Joel Busher et al., Routledge, 2024, pp. 34–52, doi:10.4324/9781003035848-4.
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- Coolsaet, R. (2024). “Radicalisation” and ’countering radicalisation’ : the emergence and expansion of a contentious concept. In J. Busher, L. Malkki, & S. Marsden (Eds.), The Routledge handbook on radicalisation and countering radicalisation (pp. 34–52). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003035848-4
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- Coolsaet, Rik. 2024. “‘Radicalisation’ and ’Countering Radicalisation’ : The Emergence and Expansion of a Contentious Concept.” In The Routledge Handbook on Radicalisation and Countering Radicalisation, edited by Joel Busher, Leena Malkki, and Sarah Marsden, 34–52. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003035848-4.
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- Coolsaet, Rik. 2024. “‘Radicalisation’ and ’Countering Radicalisation’ : The Emergence and Expansion of a Contentious Concept.” In The Routledge Handbook on Radicalisation and Countering Radicalisation, ed by. Joel Busher, Leena Malkki, and Sarah Marsden, 34–52. London: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003035848-4.
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- 1.Coolsaet R. “Radicalisation” and ’countering radicalisation’ : the emergence and expansion of a contentious concept. In: Busher J, Malkki L, Marsden S, editors. The Routledge handbook on radicalisation and countering radicalisation. London: Routledge; 2024. p. 34–52.
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- [1]R. Coolsaet, “‘Radicalisation’ and ’countering radicalisation’ : the emergence and expansion of a contentious concept,” in The Routledge handbook on radicalisation and countering radicalisation, J. Busher, L. Malkki, and S. Marsden, Eds. London: Routledge, 2024, pp. 34–52.
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But from the outset, scholars have been warning about the contentious and ambiguous nature of this new concept. This has not prevented radicalisation studies from becoming a thriving field of research, with an increasing number of scholarly disciplines involved and a widening research agenda, as well as the holy grail of many counterterrorism policies.
With hindsight, however, the new idiom has been less of a conceptual breakthrough than initially anticipated. The absence of a consensus definition of radicalisation and diverging hypotheses about the nature of its drivers have fuelled several substantial conceptual disagreements, sometimes leading to febrile scholarly debates. Inevitably, these debates have direct relevance for the elaboration of policies devised to counter radicalisation.}},
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