Scholars and states reduce terrorism to psychological and theological radicalization

Evidence

Here Lewis’s argument reflects what Kundnani (2012) sees as a movement by scholars and the state to reduce an understanding of terrorism to the concept of radicalization, which is motivated by psychological and theological reasons rather than structural issues such as those caused by war and military intervention. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 30

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘radicalization’ depoliticization move parallels the reader’s existing note on COINTELPRO-era framing of dissent as individual pathology rather than structural cause. — connects to: American radicalization is driven by psychology and emotion, not material deprivation — Ryan Andrew Brown, Todd C. Helmus, Rajeev Ramchand, Alina I. Palimaru, Sarah Weilant, Ashley L. Rhoades, and Liisa Hiatt (RAND Corporation), Violent Extremism in America:…, 151
• DEFINE: Defines radicalization as a discursive category that erases structural causes like war — core to how Selod frames the racialization of surveillance.