Description |
The
study of homegrown jihadi terrorist radicalisation has veered from early
efforts to theorise what was happening, which were often insufficiently
grounded in empirical evidence, to a reticence to theorise much at all, given
the perceived complexity of the phenomenon. Yet knowledge acquisition and
mobilisation in this relatively new field remains acutely dependent on how we
conceptualise what is happening and integrate our findings. This Research Note
provides an initial argument for the merits of adopting a fairly
straightforward ecological approach to organising and extending our grasp of
the social and social psychological factors influencing the career of potential
jihadists |