Jeffrey Stevenson Murer is the Lecturer on Collective Violence at the University of St Andrews. He was recently the Principal Investigator of the British Council-funded European Study of Youth Mobilisation, which examined the motivations of young people involved in radical political and social movements.
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Published in: openSecurityBeyond enemy images: politics and the Other – a retrospectiveJeffrey Stevenson Murer reflects on openSecurity's collection of articles, which have explored the creation of the...
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Published in: openSecurityToxic images or imaging the otherIn the aftermath of the Toulouse killings of March 2012, the French state projected a set of 'toxic images' clearly...
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Published in: openSecurityWho is the enemy Other?
In ganging up on housing estates, in racist attacks or inter-state brinkmanship, how does the enemy become the...
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Published in: HomeBolts from the blue: method and madness in the West
The Norwegian massacre and the gun attack on a US congresswoman were both dismissed as the work of deranged loners....