How can research on topics surrounding radicalization, extremism, and terrorism be safe and socially sustainable?

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08. Februar 2024

Research on extremism and related phenomena such as radicalization or terrorism is emotionally demanding and can even become dangerous, in part because it frequently means engaging with intense, and at times violent, societal conflict.

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Publications in German

The research projects mainly publish in German language. Please find all publications here.

Publications

  • von Lautz, Yannick/Bösing, Eike/Kart, Mehmet/Margit Stein (2024): Influences of Discrimination and Stigmatization on Secondary and Tertiary Level P/CVE Efforts – Insights from German Practitioners into Countering Islamist Extremism. In: Journal of Deradicalization, 38, 122-164. [Download]
    Project: Distanz
  • Abay Gaspar, Hande/Junk, Julian/Sold, Manjana/Süß, Clara-Auguste (2024): Co-escalation in Contentious Politics and Radicalization. In: PRIF Working Papers, 62, Frankfurt/M. [Download]
    Project: KURI
  • Bösing, Eike/von Lautz, Yannick/Kart, Mehmet/Stein, Margit (2023): Gender Constructions in the Prevention of and Deradicalization from Islamism in Germany. In: Journal for Deradicalization, 37, 140-172. [Download]
    Project: Distanz
  • Pollack, Detlef/Demmrich, Sarah/Müller, Olaf (2023): Editorial—Religious fundamentalism: New theoretical and empirical challenges across religions and cultures. In: Journal for Religion, Society and Politics 7, 1–11. [Download]
    Project: Ressentiment
  • Demmrich, Sarah/Hanel, Paul (2023): When religious fundamentalists feel privileged: Findings from a representative study in contemporary Turkey. In: Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, 4. [Download]
    Project: Ressentiment
  • Durmaz, Elif/Hegner, Sabrina/Schilling, Leoni/Hirschfeld, Gerrit (2023): Strategic Communication of Muslim Organizations in the Aftermath of Islamist Terrorist Attacks – a Qualitative Analysis from Germany. In: International Journal of Strategic Communication.
    Project: OKAI
  • von Lautz, Yannick/Bösing, Eike/Kart, Mehmet/Stein, Margit (2023): Counseling towards the Deradicalization of Islamist Extremists: An Overview of Approaches Based on Two Qualitative Interview Studies with Prevention Practitioners in Germany. In: Journal of Deradicalization, 36, 23-62. [Download]
    Project: Distanz
  • Ezli, Özkan (2023): The Sociability of Narrative: Freedom, Vulnerability, and Mediation in the Intercultural Novel. In: New German Critique 50 (3/150), 51–60. [Download]
    Project: Ressentiment
  • Özvatan, Özgür/Neuhauser, Bastian/Yurdakul, Gökçe (2023): The ‘Arab Clans’ Discourse: Narrating Racialization, Kinship, and Crime in the German Media. In: Social Sciences 12 (2), 104. [Download]
    Project: D:Islam
  • Pickel, Gert/Öztürk, Cemal/Schneider, Verena/Pickel, Susanne/Decker, Oliver (2022): Covid-19-Related Conspiracy Myths, Beliefs, and Democracy-Endangering Consequences. In: Politics and Governance 10 (4), 177-191. [Download]
    Project: RIRA
  • Klackl, Johannes/Stollberg, Janine/Fritsche, Immo/Schindler, Simon/Jonas, Eva (2022): The interplay between individual and collective efforts in the age of global threats. In: Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 99, (104256). [Download]
    Project: RIRA
  • Brunner, Max Manuel (2022): The European Far Right. A Review of the Recent Literature. In: Moving the Social: Journal of Social History and the History of Social Movements, 67, 125–136. [Download]
    Project: RaMi
  • Yendell, Alexander/Pickel, Gert (2022): Islamophobia and anti-Muslim feeling in Saxony – theoretical approaches and empirical findings based on population surveys. In: Kalmar, Ivan/Shoshan, Nitzan (ed.). Racism in Contemporary Germany: Islamophobia in East and West. New York: Taylor and Francis.
    Project: RIRA
  • Pickel, Gert/Yendell, Alexander (2022): Religion as Factor of Conflict in Relation to Right-Wing-Extremism, Hostility to Muslims, and Support for the AfD. In: Decker, Oliver/Kiess, Johannes/Brähler, Elmar (ed.). The Dynamics of Right-Wing-Extremism within German Society. Escape into Authoritarianism. London: Routledge, 154-172.
    Project: RIRA
  • Özvatan, Özgür (2022): De/legitimising EUrope through the performance of crises: The far-right Alternative for Germany on 'climate hysteria' and 'corona hysteria'. In: Journal of Language and Politics, 21(2), 208-232.
    Project: D:Islam
  • Sponholz, Liriam (2021): Hate Speech and Deliberation: Overcoming the “Words-That-Wound” Trap. In: Pérez-Escolar, Marta/Noguera-Vivo, José Manuel (ed.): Hate speech and polarization in participatory society. Routledge, London, 49-64. [Download]
    Project: RaMi