Reviewed Work: Weaponized Words: The Strategic Role of Persuasion in Violent Radicalization and Counter-Radicalization by Kurt Braddock

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Notes

1 Ann Swidler, “Culture in action: Symbols and strategies,” American Sociological Review 51, no. 2 (1986): 273–286; see also Myron J. Aronoff and Jan Kubik, Anthropology and Political Science: A Convergent Approach (New York: Berghahn Books, 2013).

2 David Laitin and Aaron Wildavsky, “Political culture and political preferences,” The American Political Science Review 82, no. 2 (1988): 589–596.

3 Uwe Backes, Political extremes: A conceptual history from antiquity to the present (Oxford: Routledge, 2010); R. Bennett Furlow and Harold L. Goodall, “The War of Ideas and the Battle of Narratives: A Comparison of Extremist Storytelling Structures,” Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies 11, no. 3 (2011): 215–223.

4 Elisa Orofino and William Allchorn, eds., Routledge handbook of non-violent extremism: Groups, perspectives and new debates (London and New York: Routledge, 2023).

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Funding

This research is part of a project that has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 765224.

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Sabine Volk

Sabine Volk is a research associate at the Chair of Political Science and Comparative Government at the University of Passau. Previously, she was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Early Career Researcher in the Horizon 2020 project ‘Delayed transformational fatigue in Central and Eastern Europe: Responding to the rise of illiberalism/populism’ (FATIGUE), based at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. With a background in Communication and European Studies, her research explores the political culture of the far right in eastern Germany.