Short description:

This Handbook provides the first in-depth analysis of non-violent extremism across different ideologies and geographic centres, a topic overshadowed until now by the political and academic focus on violent and jihadi extremism in the Global North.

Long description:

This Handbook provides the first in-depth analysis of non-violent extremism across different ideologies and geographic centres, a topic overshadowed until now by the political and academic focus on violent and jihadi extremism in the Global North.

Whilst acknowledging the potentiality of non-violent extremism as a precursor to terrorism, this Handbook argues that non-violent extremism ought to be considered a stand-alone area of study. Focusing on Islamist, Buddhist, Hindu, far-right, far-left, environmentalist and feminist manifestations, the Handbook discusses the ideological foundation of their ?war on ideas? against the prevailing socio-political and cultural systems in which they operate, and provides an empirical examination of their main claims and perspectives. This is supplemented by a truly global overview of non-violent extremist groups not only in Europe and the United States, but also in Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Middle East. The Handbook thus answers a call to decolonise knowledge that is especially prescient given both the complicity of non-violent extremists with authoritarian states and the dynamic of oppression towards more progressive groups in the Global South.

The Handbook will appeal to those studying extremism, radicalisation and terrorism. It intersects several relevant disciplines, including social movement studies, political science, criminology, Islamic studies and anthropology.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Why Do We Need a Handbook on Non-Violent Forms of Extremism?  Part 1: Between Extremisms: Violence and Non-Violence across Multiple Ideologies  1. Sticky Ideologies and Non-Violent Heterodox Politics  2. "Screw Your Optics": The Ambivalent Role of Violence in Islamist and Far-Right Extremism  3. "Boys who hate girls, who hate boys, who hate girls": A Quantitative Exploration of the Relationship between Misogyny, Socio-Political Outlook, and Support for Violence in Europe  Part 2: ?Old? & ?New? Religious Extremisms: Non-Violent Islamist, Buddhist and Hindu Movements  4. When Ideology is All That Matters! Exploring Non-violent Islamism through Fetullah Gülen and Taqiuddin An-Nabhani  5. The Tabligh Jama?at and Its Non-Violent Resoluteness  6. Reaction, Restoration, and the Return of Alpha-Islam: Wahhabism From Premodern Ideas to Postmodern Identities  7. The New Landscape of Extremism and Its Intersection with Political Islamists in Turkey  8. The Muslim Brotherhood in the West: Firewall or Conveyor Belt? Insights From the British Debate  9. Nativist Expressions of Non-Violent Extremism in Malaysia: The Case of Ikatan Muslimin Malaysia (ISMA: Muslim Solidarity Front of Malaysia)  10. Non-Violent Salafist Political Engagement: Comparing Egypt's Al-Nour Party with Kuwait's Islamic Salafi Alliance  11. Debating Islamism as an Expression of Political Islam  12. Enraged Buddhism: Violent, Non-Violent and ?Not-Violent? Extremism in Myanmar  13. Buddhist Constructions as a Tool of Non-Violent Extremism in Post-Conflict Sri Lanka  14. Current Trends in Buddhist Extremism and Anti-Muslim Ideology: A Study of Sri Lanka  Part 3: Far-Right Extremism: Non-Violence Among Movements on the Exclusionary Right  15. Barriers to Violence Activism on the UK Far Right: The Case of the (Democratic) Football Lads Alliance  16. The Appeal of the New Far Right in the United Kingdom: A Look Inside the New Far-Right Recruitment Pool  17. Weaponising the Alliance for the Unity of Romanians (AUR): Novelties and Continuums in Romania?s Far-Right Political Extremism  18. Far-Right Nationalist Politics in Turkey: Division of the Nationalist Camp between the MHP and the Good Party  19. The Greek White Power Music Scene: Feeding Extremism with Lyrics  20. The Identitarian Movement and its Contemporary Manifestations  21. Far-Right PEGIDA: Non-Violent Protest and the Blurred Lines between the Radical and Extreme Right  22. Metapolitics and the US Far-Right: On the "Non-Violent" Approach to Alt-Right Social Transformation  23. Anti-Gender Campaigns as a Threat to Liberal Democracy  Part 4: Post-Modern Extremisms? Non-Violent Left-Wing, Feminist and Environmental Movements since the 1970s  24. The Case of DiEM25: A Unique Transnational Political Movement in 21st-Century European Politics  25. Left-wing Radicalism in Australia: The Complexities of the Radical Left?s (Non)Violent Struggle Against Fascism  26. Overthrowing the Capitalist Social Order: The Forgotten Extremism of the British Women?s Movement  27. Becoming through Non-Violent Resistance: The Rise of Feminist Consciousness in Chile  28. The Degrowth Movement in France: From the Edges to the Centre of the Ecological Debate  29. A Spatial Account of Non-Violent Environmental Extremism in Australia  30. "Animals and the Earth can?t wait ? get off your ass and fight!": Animal Liberation Front Vigilantism in the Era of Climate Crisis  31. The Phoney War? Radical Environmentalists, Animal Rights Activists and Direct Action  32. ?The Great Refusal?: Radical Environmental Resistance Against Contemporary Ecological Breakdown  Conclusion: Key Findings, Lessons Learnt and Future Avenues of Research