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  1. The Relational Dynamics of Violence Escalation and Inhibition During Far-Right Protest Waves

    Article • American Behavioral Scientist, October 2025, SAGE Publications

    Joel Busher

  2. Using Bourdieu’s Theoretical Toolkit of Habitus, Capital, and Field to Advance Understanding of Radical Milieus

    Article • July 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Joel Busher

  3. In the Discomfort Zone: Emotional Labour and Reflexivity in Field Research on Extremism

    Article • Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, July 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Joel Busher

  4. The Routledge Handbook on Radicalisation and Countering Radicalisation

    Article • October 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Joel Busher

  5. How can we meaningfully evaluate the effects and effectiveness of programmes to prevent or counter radicalisation?

    Article • October 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Joel Busher

  6. The Cambridge Handbook of Race and Surveillance

    Article • February 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Joel Busher

  7. How the “Internal Brakes” on Violent Escalation Work and Fail: Toward a Conceptual Framework for Understanding Intra-Group Processes of Restraint in Militant Groups

    Article • Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, January 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Joel Busher

  8. Researching the Far Right

    Article • November 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Joel Busher

  9. Negotiating ethical dilemmas during an ethnographic study of anti-minority activism

    Article • November 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Joel Busher

  10. The Prevent Duty in Education

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Joel Busher

  11. The Introduction of the Prevent Duty into Schools and Colleges: Stories of Continuity and Change

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Joel Busher

  12. The enactment of the counter-terrorism “Prevent duty” in British schools and colleges: beyond reluctant accommodation or straightforward policy acceptance

    Article • Critical Studies on Terrorism, January 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Joel Busher

  13. The internal brakes on violent escalation: a typology

    Article • Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression, December 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Joel Busher

  14. UKIP and the UK’s radical right

    Article • December 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Joel Busher

  15. Chicken suits and other aspects of situated credibility contests: explaining local trajectories of anti-minority activism

    Article • Social Movement Studies, October 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Joel Busher

  16. Introduction: The Emotional Dynamics of Backlash Politics beyond Anger, Hate, Fear, Pride, and Loss

    Article • Humanity & Society, September 2018, SAGE Publications

    Joel Busher

  17. MICRO-MORAL WORLDS OF CONTENTIOUS POLITICS: A RECONCEPTUALIZATION OF RADICAL GROUPS AND THEIR INTERSECTIONS WITH ONE ANOTHER AND THE MAINSTREAM*

    Article • Mobilization An International Quarterly, June 2018, Mobilization Journal

    Joel Busher

  18. Why Even Misleading Identity Claims Matter: The Evolution of the English Defence League

    Article • Political Studies, September 2017, SAGE Publications

    Joel Busher

  19. Hopes and Fears: Community Cohesion and the ‘White Working Class’ in One of the ‘Failed Spaces’ of Multiculturalism

    Article • Sociology, January 2017, SAGE Publications

    Joel Busher

  20. The Making of Anti-Muslim Protest

    Article • October 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Joel Busher

  21. Understanding Concerns about Community Relations

    Article • Identity papers A journal of British and Irish studies, April 2015, University of Huddersfield Press

    Dr Michelle Rogerson, Joel Busher

  22. The missing spirals of violence: four waves of movement–countermovement contest in post-war Britain

    Article • Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression, November 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Joel Busher

  23. Interpreting “Cumulative Extremism”: Six Proposals for Enhancing Conceptual Clarity

    Article • Terrorism and Political Violence, June 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Joel Busher

  24. Introduction: Terrorism and Counter-terrorism in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Article • Journal of Terrorism Research, February 2014, University of St. Andrews Library

    Joel Busher

  25. From Ethnic Nationalisms to Clashing Civilizations: Reconfigurations of (Un)Civil Religion in an Era of Globalization

    Article • Religion Compass, September 2012, Wiley

    Joel Busher

  26. What do ‘middle class’ terrorists tell us about the link between poverty and terrorism?

    Article • Journal of Terrorism Research, April 2011, University of St. Andrews Library

    Joel Busher

  27. When promoting pills is easier than pushing the ABC: a case study from Kavango, Namibia

    Article • AIDS Care, July 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Joel Busher

  28. Grassroots Activism in the English Defence League: : Discourse and Public (Dis)order

    Article • Bloomsbury Academic

    Joel Busher