Jonathan Githens-Mazer
Jonathan Githens-Mazer is an academic at the University of Exeter specializing on 'radicalisation, theories of ethnicity and nationalism, and the role of national identity in radical and/or violent political mobilisation' and the co-Director of the European Muslim Research Centre, along with Robert Lambert.
Views and Publications
Githens-Mazer's academic work has focused on how the experience or 'myths, memories and symbols' of injustice create 'radicalisation'.
In his own words he is 'broadly interested in understanding the role of myths, memories and symbols in processes of micro- and macro- mobilisation, and more broadly the interplay between cultural identity and political behaviour, particularly the interface between collective identity and inidivdual participation in radical violent action.' [1]
His PhD, awarded in 2005, focused on the Easter Rising and drew on Anthony D. Smith's theories of nationalism. It was followed by Myths and Memories of the Easter Rising. [2]
In 2008 Githens-Mazer and three other academics in his department were awarded £224,000 by the Economic and Social Research Council for a two year study focusing on North Africans living in the UK, France and Spain to see if perception of terrorism in the West is caused by colonial repression or current political, social and economic problems. [3]
References
- ↑ University of Exeter, Department of Politics > Dr Jonathan Githens-Mazer (accessed 19 March 2009)
- ↑ Matthew Kelly, 'Myths and Memories of the Easter Rising: Cultural and Political Nationalism in Ireland by Jonathan Githens-Mazer', Nations and Nationalism, Volume 13, Issue 03, Pages 539-559
- ↑ 'Cash to study radical Islam', Express and Echo, 18 February 2008; p. 2
