RT Article
T1 Those Who Choose to Fight the Islamic State: Autobiographical Accounts of Western Volunteers
JF Terrorism and political violence
VO 34
IS 8
SP 1758
OP 1773
A1 Larsson, Göran
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1819843629
AB This article is a qualitative study of anti-IS fighters who have traveled from the West to join the military struggle in Syria and Iraq. while earlier studies have mainly analyzed open sources (i.e. social media or journalist’s reports), this article is based on an in-depth analysis of eight autobiographies written by individuals who traveled from Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the United Kingdom, Germany and the U.S. to take part in the fight against IS. What motives do they give for doing so, how are they treated by the police and journalists after they return from the wars in Syria and Iraq, and do they express other motives than those given by Westerners who have joined IS?
K1 Kurdish
K1 YPJ
K1 YPG
K1 Peshmerga
K1 Iraq
K1 Syria
K1 Violence
K1 autobiographies
K1 Anti-IS fighters
DO 10.1080/09546553.2020.1837118