ISBN:
9780415494342
,
0415494354
,
0415494346
,
9780415494359
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (281 p)
Series Statement:
Extremism and Democracy
Series Statement:
Extremism and Democracy Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version The New Extremism in 21st Century Britain
DDC:
320.50941
Keywords:
Social isolation
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Muslims
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Radicalism History 21st century
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Radicalism - Great Britain - History - 21st century
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Electronic books
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Great Britain Politics and government 21st century
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Since the 1990s, there has been a growing concern about the resurgence of extremist and radical movements in the Western world. Although a variety of challenges to the liberal democratic order have emerged, the main focus of concern among academics, policy-makers and practitioners within Europe and beyond has been on the growth and activities of Islamists and to a lesser extent the extreme right. However, these forms of extremism are seldom placed alongside each other, and in a manner that is sensitive to both the causes and consequences of extremist mobilization. This book presents new empiri
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; The New Extremism in 21st Century Britain; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Abbreviations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The 'new' extremism in twenty-first-century Britain; Part I; 1 Religious extremism in Britain and British Muslims: Threatened citizenship and the role of religion; 2 Mobilization, recruitment, violence and the street: Radical violent takfiri Islamism in early twenty-first-century Britain; 3 Faith and state: British policy responses to 'Islamist' extremism; 4 Policing the 'new extremism' in twenty-first-century Britain
Description / Table of Contents:
5 Policing within a counter-terrorism context post-7/7: The importance of partnership, dialogue and support when engaging with Muslim communities6 'Preventing violent extremism' - why local context matters; Part II; 7 Who might vote for the BNP?: Survey evidence on the electoral potential of the extreme right in Britain; 8 In search of the winning formula: Nick Griffin and the 'modernization' of the British National Party; 9 Who votes extreme right in twenty-first-century Britain?: The social bases of support for the National Front and British National Party
Description / Table of Contents:
10 Responses to the extreme right in BritainConclusion; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
