RT Article
T1 “Now Is the Time to Wake Up”: Islamic State’s Narratives of Political Awareness
JF Terrorism and political violence
VO 33
IS 6
SP 1217
OP 1236
A1 Al-Dayel, Nadia
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1770925058
AB Terrorist organisations are increasingly seeking to attract transnational membership. In particular, the Islamic State proudly displays transnational support in its propaganda. As a result, academics have established that themes of belonging, religious fulfilment, victimhood and utopia are important recruitment devices. This article reveals additional themes that encourage a critical reasoning of the power dynamics in the citizen-state relationship, questioning the strength of religious ideology that is assumed to attract and bind transnational membership. These themes are revealed through an innovative, blended method of critical discourse analysis, interpretivism and securitisation that examines the narratives and influence of the recruitment actor on an international scale. After a review of the Islamic State’s media operations, this method is applied to a prominent video featuring a top recruiter and UN designated terrorist, Australian citizen Neil Christopher Prakash. Then, it details how Prakash’s migration to the Islamic State led to securitisation discourses from both Australia and the U.S., affecting citizen-state relations. It concludes with a discussion on implications, suggesting directions for research on transnational extremist organisations.
K1 Securitisation
K1 critical discourse
K1 Propaganda
K1 Recruitment
K1 Islamic State
DO 10.1080/09546553.2019.1603145