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dc.contributor.authorOmeni, Akali
dc.contributor.authorAl Khathlan, Areej
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-04T12:30:01Z
dc.date.available2024-03-04T12:30:01Z
dc.date.issued2024-03-01
dc.identifier287770536
dc.identifier8362225b-1a0c-43cd-bca0-81c504022cf7
dc.identifier85186850506
dc.identifier.citationOmeni , A & Al Khathlan , A 2024 , ' "Framing" contentious activism : a sociological analysis of Boko Haram’s ideology, through its discourse (2008 – 2016) ' , Critical Studies on Terrorism , vol. Latest articles . https://doi.org/10.1080/17539153.2024.2319737en
dc.identifier.issn1753-9153
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-2282-6626/work/155069131
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/29410
dc.description.abstractHow does a terror movement like Boko Haram employ language and discourse towards collective action? This is the central question our paper addresses. Focusing on Boko Haram as a militant jihādist social movement organisation (SMO), our article shows how the movement’s ideology, evidenced through its discourse, “frames” narratives that identify the problem, call for action and motivate adherents and potential recruits towards violent repertoires. Using interview data, critical discourse analysis (CDA) and Social Movement Theory (SMT), specifically framing analysis, we interrogate Boko Haram’s Qur’anic exegesis based on the group’s publications, exhortations, lectures and sermons between 2008 and 2016. Along with calls for jihād (holy war, within the movement’s interpretation) and criticism of Nigeria’s federal constitution vis-à-vis Sharī‘a (Islamic law) as a superior social alternative, Boko Haram employs a specific takfir (apostate declaration) doctrine that divides the world into two camps: unbelievers (al-kāfirūn) or (kuffar) and believers. Such identity construction constitutes part of a “framing” approach to mobilisation and recruitment. In this sociological analysis of Boko Haram’s discourse, we identify diagnostic, prognostic and motivational “framing” patterns employed alongside an injustice master frame as a means to encourage collective action by the “in-group” (adherents and potential recruits) against “out-group” identities.
dc.format.extent23
dc.format.extent838389
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofCritical Studies on Terrorismen
dc.subjectSocial movement theoryen
dc.subjectCritical discourse analysisen
dc.subjectFramingen
dc.subjectTerrorismen
dc.subjectIslamic activismen
dc.subjectBoko Haramen
dc.subjectIdeologyen
dc.subjectJZ International relationsen
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subject.lccJZen
dc.title"Framing" contentious activism : a sociological analysis of Boko Haram’s ideology, through its discourse (2008 – 2016)en
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of International Relationsen
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/17539153.2024.2319737
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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