BISA 2025 Conference

Violence, non-violence and resistance

WE 18

18 Jun 2025, 15:00

1h 30m

Panel Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group

Description

This panel interrogates the boundary between violence and non-violence; legitimate and illegitimate violence; and the use of the 'terrorism' label with regards to resistance.

Subcontributions

• Palestine solidarity as an indicator of extremism: British state’s criminalisation of activism
• Delineating Logics and Practices of Violence in the Islamic State Conflict
• Beyond Religious and Nationalist Paradigms: Suicide Attacks as Necroresistance in the PKK
• Framing Resistance: The Symbolic and Strategic Use of Nonviolence by Palestinian Islamic Jihad
• Transversal Alliances to Counter Transnational Impunity: Rethinking accountability of surveillance and spyware technologies in state crime through collective movements