Jihadi Audiovisuality and its Entanglements

Christoph Günther is the Principal Investigator of the junior research group Jihadism on the Internet: Images and Videos, their Dissemination and Appropriation in the Department of Anthropology and African Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. Having a background in Islamic Studies, his research interests include religio-political movements in the modern Middle East, visual cultures and iconography, and the sociology of religion. He is the author of Entrepreneurs of Identity: The Islamic State’s Symbolic Repertoire (Berghahn Books, 2022) and has co-edited Jihadi Audiovisuality and its Entanglements: Meanings, Aesthetics, Appropriations (Edinburgh University Press, 2020) with Simone Pfeifer. Simone Pfeifer is a postdoctoral researcher at the Research Training Group anschließen-ausschließen: Cultural Dynamics Beyond Globalized Networks at the University of Cologne. She is a social and cultural anthropologist with a focus on visual, digital and media anthropology. Her research interests include transnational migration and mobility in postmigrant contexts, political violence, religion, and artistic practices, and ethics in (digital) ethnographic research. Her recent publications include Social Media im transnationalen Alltag (2020, transcript), the co-edited volume Jihadi Audiovisuality and its Entanglements: Meanings, Aesthetics, Appropriations (Edinburgh University Press, 2020) with Christoph Günther, and the co-edited special section Dark Ethnographies? (ZfE 2021: 146).

• Introduction: Jihadi Audiovisuality and its Entanglements: A Conceptual Framework Christoph Günther and Simone Pfeifer Part A: Ethical Challenges of Empirically Grounded Research on Jihadism1. On Speaking, Remaining Silent and Being Heard: Framing Research, Positionality and Publics in the Jihadi FieldMartijn de Koning, Annelies Moors, Aysha Navest2. Designing Research on Radicalisation using Social Media Content: Data Protection Regulations as Challenges and OpportunitiesManjana Sold, Hande Abay Gaspar, Julian Junk3. Ethics in Gender Online Research: A Facebook Case StudyClaudia CarvalhoPart B: Visualizing Jihadi Ideology and Action4. Appropriation in Islamic State Propaganda: A Theoretical and Analytical Framework of Types and DimensionsBernd Zywietz and Yorck Beese5. Visual Performativity of Violence: Power and Retaliatory Humiliation in Islamic State (IS) Beheading Videos between 2014 and 2017Michael Krona6. From the Darkness into the Light. Narratives of Conversion in Jihadi VideosChristoph GüntherPart C: Appropriating and Contesting Jihadi Audiovisuality7. Artivism, Politics and Islam – An Empirical-Theoretical Approach to Artistic Strategies and Aesthetic Counter-Narratives that Defy Collective StigmatisationMonika Salzbrunn8. Re-enacting Violence: Contesting Public Spheres with Appropriations of IS Execution VideosSimone Pfeifer, Larissa-Diana Fuhrmann, Patricia Wevers9. ‘You’re against Dawla, but you’re Listening to their Nasheeds?’ Appropriating Jihadi Audio-Visualities in the Online Streetwork Project Jamal al-Khatib – My Path!Rami Ali, Džemal Šibljaković, Felix Lippe, Ulrich Neuburg, Florian NeuburgPart D: Anāshīd: Soundscapes of Religio-Political Experience10. ‘Nashīd’ between Islamic Chanting and Jihadi Hymns: Continuities and TransformationsInes Weinrich11. Anāshīd at the Crossroad between the Organizational and the PrivateKarin Berg12. Contested Chants: The Nashīd Ṣalī̄l al-Ṣawārim and its AppropriationsAlexandra Dick and Larissa-Diana FuhrmannIndex