Countering Jihadi Cool

Caroline Joan “Kay” S. Picart, M.Phil. (Cantab), Ph.D., J.D.-M.A., Esquire, is an Appellate Assistant Public Defender at the Florida Tenth Judicial Circuit's Public Defender's Office, former adjunct professor of law at Florida A&M University, U.S. and former associate professor of English and humanities at Florida State University, U.S.

This book analyzes some of the key global narratives that drive the internet recruitment rhetoric and attractiveness—jihadi cool—of some terrorist organizations, and it examines the development of counter-narratives—often employed with very limited success. Drawing on law, politics, philosophy, rhetoric, feminist theory, and communication studies, Caroline Picart presents an original, expansive, and strategic account of major, violent threats to western democratic cultures and explains how to begin to respond critically, effectively, and democratically to these dangers. The topic could not be more timely or more important.

• Foreword by Harry Keyishian1: The Rhetoric and Aesthetic of “Jihadi Cool/Chic”2: Raza v. New York: An Attempt at a Counter-Narrative with Mixed Results3: Countering Jihadi Chic: The Myth of the Jihadi Bride and the Yazidi Genocide4: Toward a Poethics of WitnessingBibliographyIndex