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100 1 _aTOROS Harmonie
245 _aBetter researchers, better people?
_bthe dangers of empathetic research on the extreme right/
_cHarmonie Toros
260 _c2022
520 _aThe difficulties of empathising with violent perpetrators has preoccupied a small number of social scientists, particularly criminologists and critical security and terrorism scholars. Most of this work examines how researchers can mitigate the impact of engaging with violent perpetrators and minimize any distress this may cause. This article examines whether a deeper empathetic exchange with violent actors - one in which researchers open themselves cognitively and emotionally and that accepts the dialogical nature of empathy - is the next step that needs to be undertaken by critical scholars. It then examines the costs of such a move. The discomfort and danger of empathizing with violent actors is examined through the particularly thorny example of research with violent actors from the extreme-right.
650 _aEMPATHY
650 _aEXTREME-RIGHT
650 _aARDERN
650 _aDIALOGUE
773 _aCritical Studies on Terrorism:
_gVol 15, No 1, March 2022, pp. 225-231 (112)
598 _aTERRORISM
856 _uhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17539153.2022.2031127
_zClick here for full text
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