TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Emotions and affect in terrorism research: epistemological shift and ways ahead
JO  - Critical studies on terrorism
A1  - Clément, Maéva
SP  - 247
EP  - 270
VL  - 14
IS  - 2
N2  - From the perspective of emotion and affect research, a double paradox structures the study of terrorism. The first paradox consists in assuming terrorist violence's clear psychological impact without unpacking its affective workings. The second relates to the presumption of organisations' strategically rational turn to terrorist violence, thereby emptying accounts of non-state actors' motivations of complex, intersubjective emotional dynamics. The article argues that an epistemological shift is necessary in terrorism research to question the relationship between emotions/affects and knowledge/power. Drawing on concepts and theoretical engagements from emotion and affect research in global politics, the article interrogates how emotions/affects inform political agency and how researchers may explore their complex, diffuse, and partly contradictory sociopolitical effects. The article illustrates the value of such theoretical engagements by turning to two examples, in which the performance of (non-state) collective emotions, on one side, and the state politics of emotion, on the other, highlight the ambiguous political effects of emotions/affects.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1753-9153
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17539153.2021.1902611
ID  - ref1
ER  -