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One of the consequences of the events that occurred in France in January and November 2015, and of the Syrian war is the focus on radicalisation phenomena. Nonetheless these phenomena have a long history as this 1965’ title shows: ‘‘Our Republic: Ben Bella is preparing a radicalisation of his regime’’ (Le Monde, June 1965). In order to describe the current meanings of the indeterminate concept of radicalisation, we proceed with a systematic analysis of four daily newspapers between 1995-2015, using the Mallet computer program. We distinguish several relevant semantic fields regarding the notion of radicalisation and their temporal variations. We show a restriction of these semantic fields since 2012, leading to a quasi identification between radicalisation and Islamic terrorism.
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The paper describes the current meanings of the indeterminate concept of radicalisation.
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Caroline Guibet Lafaye is permanent research fellow at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) (France). Her investigations in sociology and political philosophy are devoted to analyze believes and interpretations about inequalities, social justice and radicalisation. Her investigations are also devoted to issues raised by equalitarianism, liberalism, distributive justice and equality of opportunities, on one hand, and political violence, terrorism and radicalism, on the other hand. The last book she published is devoted to judgments about justice and injustice: Le juste et l’inacceptable. Les sentiments d’injustice contemporains et leurs raisons (2012).
Mrs Caroline Guibet Lafaye
CNRS UMR 8097
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This page is a summary of: La radicalisation vue par la presse – Fluctuation d’une représentation, Bulletin of Sociological Methodology/Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique, July 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0759106316642706.
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