Jeffrey Stevenson Murer: Understanding Collective Violence - a podcast by John F. Morrison

Dr. Jeffrey Stevenson Murer explores the problems of group violence, inter-communal conflict, and political terrorism through the lens of collective identity formation. Presently he is the Senior Lecturer on Collective Violence in the School of International Relations and a Research Fellow to the Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St. Andrews. In 2006, he edited with Professor Derek Reveron Flashpoints in the War on Terror, and has published in numerous journals including Terrorism and Political Violence, Journal for Terrorism Research, and the International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society. His forthcoming book, Repeating Hate (Palgrave 2018), explores far-right political extremism and violence in Central Europe, and with Dr. Clare Bielby, he is the co-editor of another forthcoming volume Perpetrating Selves: Performing Identity, Doing Violence (Palgrave 2018). As well as being a Scottish Institute for Policing Research Lecturer, in 2017 Murer became a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts.

Some research that has influenced Jeffrey's career

Vamik Volkan (1988) The Need for Enemies and Allies: From Clinical Practice to International Relationships

Julia Kristeva (1991) Strangers to Ourselves

Etienne Balibar and Immanuel Wallerstein (1991) Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities

Some of Jeffrey's key research

Understanding collective violence: The communicative and performative qualities of violence in acts of belonging (2014)

Ethnic Conflict: An Overview of Analyzing and Framing Communal Conflicts from Comparative Perspectives. (2012)

The Emergence of a Lumpen-consumerate: The Aesthetics of Consumption and Violence in the English Riots of 2011 (2015)

Constructing the Enemy-Other: Anxiety, Trauma and Mourning in the Narratives of Political Conflict. (2009)

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Website of John F. Morrison