Routledge Handbook of Non-Violent Extremism

<p>This <em>Handbook</em> 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 <i>jihadi</i> extremism in the Global North.</p><p>Whilst acknowledging the potentiality of non-violent extremism as a precursor to terrorism this <em>Handbook</em> 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 <em>Handbook</em> 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 <em>Handbook</em> 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.</p><p>The <em>Handbook</em> 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. </p>