Arranging Resilience

Acknowledgements ix
Prologue xi

1 Introduction 1
1.1 The Challenges of Preventing Violent Extremism 1
1.2 Research Questions 2
1.3 Finding Resilience in Practices: The Research Design 3
1.3.1 Research Context 3
1.3.2 Research Design 3
1.3.3 Methodology 5
1.4 Thorny Issues and Definitions 5
1.5 From PVE to Arrangements for Resilience: Structure of the Thesis 7
1.5.1 Contributions to Articles 8
1.5.2 Structure of the Thesis 9
1.6 Mapping the field and tracing a path ahead 11

2 Preventing Violent Extremism: A Review of the Literature 15
2.1 Introduction 15
2.2 Four Themes 17
2.2.1 The resilient individual 17
2.2.2 Identity and identities 19
2.2.3 Dialogue and action 21
2.2.4 Engaged, resilient communities 23
2.3 Discussion 24
2.3.1 An orientation toward resilience 25
2.4 Conclusion 27
2.5 Limitations 28

3 Being Resilient to Radicalisation in PVE Policy 35
3.1 Introduction 35
3.2 The concept of resilience and its challenges 36
3.2.1 The challenges of resilience as a concept in social policy 37
3.3 Resilience in PVE policy 39
3.3.1 The contexts in which resilience appears 40
3.3.2 The stated aims of resilience 41
3.3.3 Approaches to building resilience 41
3.4 The metaphors of resilience in PVE policy 42
3.4.1 Resilience as a shield 42
3.4.2 Resilience through connection 43
3.4.3 Interrogating the metaphors 44
3.5 Implications for governing resilient responses to extremism 50
3.6 Some concluding remarks 54
3.6.1 Limitations and recommendations for future research 55

4 Working Across Boundaries in Preventing Violent Extremism: Towards a Typology of Collaborative Arrangements 67
4.1 Introduction 67
4.2 Working Across Boundaries in Social Policy 68
4.2.1 Why Collaboration? 69
4.2.2 Forms of Collaboration 72
4.2.3 Constraining and Enabling Factors in Collaborative Arrangements 74
4.3 Towards a Typology 75
4.3.1 Method 76
4.4 The Typology and Its Implications 80

5 Resiliences to Radicalisation: Four Key Perspectives 97
5.1 Introduction 97
5.2 Resilience to Radicalisation 99
5.2.1 Radicalisation 99
5.2.2 Resilience 100
5.2.3 Resilience in the context of preventing violent extremism 102
5.3 Research Methodology 103
5.3.1 Q-Methodology 103
5.3.2 Analysis 106
5.4 Results 106
5.4.1 Areas of Consensus 106
5.4.2 Four Perspectives 107
5.4.3 Consensus and Divergence Between Perspectives 112
5.5 Discussion 114
5.5.1 Interpretation, Transformation, and Resistance 114
5.5.2 Divergences and Collaboration 115
5.5.3 Implications 116

6 Arranging Resilience 127
6.1 Introduction 127
6.1.1 The nature of the problem 128
6.2 A Framework for Resilience in the Context of PVE 129
6.2.1 Constructing the Framework 131
6.2.2 Implications of the Framework 135

Summary 153