Topics in Sociology

Ahmad, E. (2002). Terrorism: Theirs and ours. New York: Seven Stories Press

Tripathy, J. (2010). What is a terrorist?. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 13(3), 219-234

Moten, A.R. (2010). Understanding terrorism: contested concept, conflicting perspectives and shattering consequences. Intellectual Discourse, 18 (1), 35-63

Tilley, C. (2004). Terror, Terrorism, Terrorists. Sociological Theory, 22 (1), 5-13

Oriola, T.B. & Akinola, O. (2018). Ideational dimensions of the Boko Haram phenomenon. Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 41(8), 595-618

Murphy, E. (2023). The militias and foot soldiers of Hindutva terror. In Hindu nationalism and terrorism in India: The Saffron threat to democracy (Chapter 4: pp. 67-72). Routledge

Macklin, G. (2022). The extreme right, climate change and terrorism. Terrorism and Political Violence, 34 (5), 979-996. DOI:

Menzie, L. (2020). Stacys, Beckys, and Chads: the construction of femininity and hegemonic masculinity within incel rhetoric. Psychology & Sexuality, 13(1), 69-85. DOI: 10.1080/19419899.2020.1806915

Furtado, H.T. (2015). Against state terror: lessons on memory, counterterrorism and resistance from the Global South. Critical Studies on Terrorism, 8 (1), 72-89. DOI: 10.1080/17539153.2015.1005936

Schwartz, S. J., Dunkel, C. S., & Waterman, A. S. (2009). Terrorism: An Identity Theory Perspective. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 32(6), 537–559

Awan, I. (2012). “I’m a Muslim not an extremist:” How prevent strategy has constructed a “suspect” community. Politics and Policy, 40(6), 1158–1185. [Read the Findings part]

Khalid, M. (2011). Gender, Orientalism and representations of the ‘Other’ in the War on Terror. Global Change, Peace & Security, 23(1).15-29. DOI: 10.1080/14781158.2011.540092

Zalewski, M. (2013). Thinking feminism and race through the war on terror. Critical Studies on Terrorism, 6 (2). 313-315. DOI:

Oriola, T. B. (2024). BBOG, members’ social positionality, and politics. In

Patel, G. T. (2017). It’s not about security, it’s about racism: Counter-terror strategies, civilizing processes and the post-race fiction. Palgrave

Mohammed, I. (2022). Decolonialisation and the Terrorism Industry. Critical Studies on Terrorism, 15(2), 417–440

Khan, R. M. (2024). A case for the abolition of “terrorism” and its industry. Critical Studies on Terrorism, 1–24

Roberts, S.R. (2018): The biopolitics of China’s “war on terror” and the exclusion of the Uyghurs. Critical Asian Studies, 50 (2), 232-258. DOI:

Calhoun, L. (2018). Totalitarian tendencies in drone strikes by states. Critical Studies on Terrorism, 11(2), 357-375

Jacobson, A.D. (2021). Back to the dark side: Explaining the CIA’s repeated use of torture. Terrorism and Political Violence, 33(2), 257-270. DOI: 10.1080/09546553.2021.1880193

Galtung, J. (1969). Violence, Peace and Peace Research. Journal of Peace Research, 6 (3), 167-191