Cycles of Construing in Radicalization and Deradicalization: A Study of Salafist Muslims. Issue 1 (2nd January 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Winter, David A.; Muhanna-Matar, Aitemad
• Is Part Of: Journal of constructivist psychology. Volume 33:Issue 1(2020)
• Page Start: 58
• Page End: 88
• Publication Date: 2020-01-02
• Subjects: Personal construct theory -- Periodicals; Constructivism (Psychology) -- Periodicals; 150.1985
• DOI: 10.1080/10720537.2018.1536904
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1072-0537

Abstract

Abstract : This article explores radicalization and deradicalization by considering the experiences of six young Tunisian people who had become Salafist Muslims. Their responses to narrative interviews and repertory grid technique are considered from a personal construct perspective, revealing processes of construing and reconstruing, as well as relevant aspects of the structure and content of their construct systems. In two cases, their journeys involved not only radicalization but self-deradicalization, and their experiences are drawn on to consider implications for deradicalization.