Abstract
This chapter is not about the recognition and empowerment of marginalised or voiceless groups but offers a complementary discussion of a different set of margins. It seeks to develop a psychologically based understanding of how and why violence gathers around the edges of the mediatised public sphere, and then erupts onto centre stage in the form of terrorist attacks.
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Richards, B. (2015). The Voices of Extremist Violence: What Can We Hear?. In: Thorsen, E., Jackson, D., Savigny, H., Alexander, J. (eds) Media, Margins and Civic Agency. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137512642_5
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