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PRO FESS O R BARRY R IC HAR DSB O UR NEMO U TH U N IVERS ITY
PS A GREEK PO LITIC S S PEC IALIS T GRO UP W O RKS HO P, 20 J UN E 2014
C AN ADA WATER L IBRARYLO N DO N
On the psychology of violent extremism
Humiliation/shame
Retribution/retaliation/revenge
e.g. non-ideological ‘rampage’ killers; jihadi and neo-Nazi terrorists
Humiliated states of mind: origins
Type AAdult experience
of humiliation
Type B Childhood
experience of humiliation
Adult sense of
humiliation
Belief (perhaps
delusional) in ongoing humiliation
of self and/or others
+ omnipotence > terror
Assumptions of continuity
Discontinuum
UKIP
vote
r
EDL activist
NeoNazi terrorist
Another discontinuum
Conce
rn
with a
nti-
Musli
m
preju
dice
Anti-western
conspiracy theories
Violent
Jihadism
Psychosocial analysis
Societal context always in interaction with psychic interiority
Example: the manufacture of dissent, as in media content > generation of Type A humiliation > potential for toxic mobilisation of Type B humiliation
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Professor Barry [email protected]
Some reading
Lankford, A. and Hakim, N. (2011) From Columbine to Palestine: A comparative analysis of rampage shooters in the United States and volunteer suicide bombers in the Middle East. Aggression and Violent Behaviour 16, 98-107.
Richards, B. (2009) ‘Explosive humiliation and news media.’ In Day Sclater, S., et al. (eds.), Emotion: Psychosocial Perspectives. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 59-71.
Richards, B. (2014) ‘Extreme nationalism and the hatred of the liberal state’, in N. Demertzis, ed., Emotions in Politics: The Affect Dimension in Political Tension. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 124-142.
Richards, B. (in press) ‘What drove Anders Breivik?’ Contexts (journal of the American Sociological Association), forthcoming.
Volkan, V. (2004) Blind Trust. Large groups and their leaders in times of crisis and terror. Charlottesville, VA: Pitchstone.