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Cover -- Endorsement Page -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Chapter 1: Introducing the Prosecution Project 2017-2020: Its aims and means -- Introduction -- What is tPP and what is in this book? -- The goals of tPP -- Conceptual frames -- Determining inclusion and exclusion -- A brief guide to this (not so brief) chapter -- Finding and coding cases -- Locating potential cases from news -- Locating potential cases from scraping -- The process from identification to audit -- How does tPP operate? -- Team Manual and Codebook -- Digital platforms -- Training -- Project design -- Qualitative coding -- Investigation through Open-Source Intelligence -- Intelligence analysis -- Dating and tracking cases -- Researching cases -- Evaluating sources -- An accounting so far -- The unique contributions of tPP -- tPP via the numbers -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Signals of how and why socio-politically motivated crimes are completed -- Introduction -- Group capabilities and resources -- Background on the requirements of socio-political operations -- Methodology -- Sample -- Analyses choice and binary coding -- Descriptive statistics analysis of group affiliation, primary tactic, and othered status -- QCA and results -- Classification tree -- Discussion and conclusion -- QCA and investigation -- Appendix -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Labeling terrorism before and after 9/11 -- Introduction -- Previous research -- Methods -- Variables -- Data -- Statistical testing -- Replicability -- Findings -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Friend or foe?: An analysis of factors influencing sentence length in the prosecution of terrorism -- Introduction -- Literature review -- Hypothesis.

'This study is an exploration of insurrectionary anarchist praxis, with a particular focus on how the rhetoric, discourse, and theory is both informed and conveyed through communiqués. It challenges the reader to consider the marginalized ideas put forth by those political actors that communicate through bombs, arson, and broken windows, who are rejected through the state's construction of terrorism. When a police station is firebombed, the subsequent discussions focus more on the illegality of the act rather than the sociopolitical critique the actor put forth. What if we were to embrace the means through which the militant 'organic intellectual' acts, and consider the communiqué's content, the way one would consider any political text? This inter-textual analysis is presented within a political and historical context, with the hopes of elevating the discussion of insurrectionary praxis beyond notions of terrorism and securitization and towards its application for intersectional challenges to structural violence and domination. In the social war being waged by insurrectionary anarchists, small acts of violence are announced and contextualized through written communiqués, which are posted online, translated, and circulated globally. This book offers the first contemporary history of these post-millennial, digitally-mediated, insurrectionary anarchist networks, and seeks to locate this tendency within anti-state struggles from the past. Through an examination of thousands of movement documents, this book presents the discourse offered by clandestine, urban guerrillas fighting capitalism, the state, and the omnipresent forces of violence and coercion' --Back cover

The term terrorism is as value-laden a descriptor as one will encounter in the contemporary period. Though it evokes a strong image of an Orientalist, colonized, brown body enacting brutal, theatrical violence from behind a balaclava, the term itself describes very little. The decision to label a particular act, individual, or movement as terroristic is more a discursive question of politics than means. In the post-9/11 era, state-level rhetoricians describe their ideological enemies that can be "othered" as terrorists, while some are considered extremists. In doing so, Muslim, Arab, Asian, African, and foreign-born advocates and practitioners of political violence are termed terrorists with near universality, while white, Christian, Westerners acting in the name of white supremacy, anti-abortion, and so-called patriot, or sovereign citizen movements are left largely outside of that taxonomy. Through an analysis of the film Black Hawk Down, jihadist-produced media designed for US audiences, media accounts of Boko Haram in Nigeria, and the framing of rightist violence, it is clear how violence is viewed positionally. Furthermore, these examples demonstrate how terrorism has been utilized as a defamatory label applied asymmetrically to some proponents of political violence—those brown and black lives existing in precarity who challenge discursive claims on violence, statehood, capital, and what are broadly understood to be Western values.

The term terrorism is as value-laden a descriptor as one will encounter in the contemporary period. Though it evokes a strong image of an Orientalist, colonized, brown body enacting brutal, theatrical violence from behind a balaclava, the term itself describes very little. The decision to label a particular act, individual, or movement as terroristic is more a discursive question of politics than means. In the post-9/11 era, state-level rhetoricians describe their ideological enemies that can be "othered" as terrorists, while some are considered extremists. In doing so, Muslim, Arab, Asian, African, and foreign-born advocates and practitioners of political violence are termed terrorists with near universality, while white, Christian, Westerners acting in the name of white supremacy, anti-abortion, and so-called patriot, or sovereign citizen movements are left largely outside of that taxonomy. Through an analysis of the film Black Hawk Down, jihadist-produced media designed for US audiences, media accounts of Boko Haram in Nigeria, and the framing of rightist violence, it is clear how violence is viewed positionally. Furthermore, these examples demonstrate how terrorism has been utilized as a defamatory label applied asymmetrically to some proponents of political violence—those brown and black lives existing in precarity who challenge discursive claims on violence, statehood, capital, and what are broadly understood to be Western values.