Terrorism and affordance /

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Imprint:	London ; New York : Continuum, ©2012.
Description:	1 online resource (217 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	New directions in terrorism studies New directions in terrorism studies.
Subject:	Terrorism. Political violence. Political violence. Terrorism.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11167532

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Other authors / contributors:	Taylor, Maxwell, 1945- Currie, P. M.
ISBN:	9781441127822 1441127828 9781441133816 144113381X 9781441173423 1441173420 9781501301155 1501301152 1628920211 9781628920215 128373592X 9781283735926 9781628920215
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. English.
Summary:	In this groundbreaking work, leading scholars and experts set out to explore the utility of the concept of affordance in the study and understanding of terrorism and political violence. Affordance is a concept used in a variety of fields, from psychology to artificial intelligence, which refers to how the quality of an environment or object allows an individual to perform a specific action. This concept can represent an important element in the process of choice involved in behavior, and is closely related to situational analyses of criminal behavior. In this book, the contributors set out to explore how this concept can be used to study terrorism and, as a result, develop management strategies. Essays discuss such topics as affordance in relation to counterterrorism, technology, cyber-jihad, ideology, and political ecologies. By importing the concept of affordance and a new set of research to the study of terrorism, the authors offer an innovative and original work that challenges and adds to various aspects of situational crime prevention and counterterrorism.
Other form:	Print version: 9781283735926

Table of Contents:

1. Terrorism and Affordance: An Introduction / Max Taylor
2. Affordance and Situational Crime Prevention: Implications for Counter-Terrorism / Richard Wortley
3. Conceptual and Methodological Explorations in Affordance and Counter-Terrorism / Paul Ekblom
4. Cyber-Jihad: Ideology, Affordance and Latent Motivations / Gilbert Ramsay
5. Affording Terrorism: Material Agency and Artifactualities in the Co-Shaping of Modern Terrorism / Mats Fridlund
6. Affordances and the New Political Ecologies / Roy Williams
7. When are Terrorists Hackers? Technology, Affordance and Practice / Gilbert Ramsay
8. Terrorists, Affordance and the Over-Estimation of Offence Homogeneity / Jason Roche
9. Affordance as Embedded Opportunity? / Ken Pease
10. Conclusion / PM Currie
Appendix
Bibliography.

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