Les martyrs jihadistes veulent-ils forcément mourir?: Une approche émique de la radicalisation autosacrificielle au Pakistan

• Autores: Amélie Blom
• Localización: Revue française de science politique, ISSN 0035-2950, Vol. 61, Nº 5, 2011, págs. 867-892
• Idioma: francés
• Texto completo no disponible (Saber más ...)
• Resumen

  • Using a prosopography based on uncontrollable materials, most academic works on the phenomenon of suicide bombings tend to present a “martyr” who is hyper motivated to die. This contrasts with the life stories of former recruits from a Pakistani jihadi militia, which show that individual motivations might be less a puzzle than the social mechanisms of self-sacrificial radicalization. Three types of mechanisms can then be identified :

    running away, betting on one's consistency and a quest for organizational framing. This emic approach is also applied to the causes of de-radicalization to suggest, from an “upside-down” perspective, that the act of self-sacrificial violence itself derives neither always from the primary socialization of the militant, nor necessarily from a will to die but, often, from collective techniques of creating consent and individual “absurd decisions”.