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Framed in the news media as an unparalleled and unprecedented crime of terrorism in Portugal, a young Portuguese man was arrested in 2022 in possession of machetes, crossbows, daggers, gas canisters, and a written plan detailing the alleged attack on the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon. This article seeks to map the social dynamics that occurred in the first month of the circulation of journalistic content about this event on the social network Facebook, one of the most widely used digital platforms in Portugal when it comes to journalistic consumption and interaction. It assumes that digital environments perform a central and omnipresent role in the social dynamics of individuals, whose use starts with a dialogue with personal and individual contexts as well as social ones. Focusing on the participatory spaces of Portugal's leading press on Facebook, this exploratory study is based on qualitative content analysis of comments (n = 1969) directed at journalistic texts (n = 28) from Diário de Notícias, Público, Observador, and Jornal de Notícias, from 10 February to 11 March 2022. The results show that user interventions are not evenly distributed and can be used for various purposes, with random commenting and incivility being among the most frequent dynamics. However, the coding highlighted the various questions about news coverage and whether there was a suspected terrorist attack. Also noteworthy were several public expressions of liking or disliking the approach to the case in the context of terrorism or not, which allow us to read that the online social dynamics of this case do not immediately centralize the character as a terrorist. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The conflict in the Gaza Strip produced new scenes of horrors that shocked international public opinion during the month of October 2023 and beyond. Palestinians' right to land continues to be denied and violently repressed by the Israeli state, which, in turn, has responded to terrorist and violent attacks by Hamas. This, in turn, has been represented as the personification of Palestinians in the search to delegitimize their agendas before the world. The objective of this article is to analyze the identification between Hamas, terrorism and the left carried out by evangelical parliamentarians in Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An analytical tradition considers political violence linked to ethno-nationalist claims from a culturalist approach, which intends to offer a relevant interpretative model. This article aims to test this type of approach to the conflict in the Basque Country. In order to examine the validity of this interpretative model, we conducted a qualitative sociological survey among 73 former clandestine militants. The empirical data allow us to conclude that a culturalist and essentialist approach of the use of political violence in this case is irrelevant. On the other hand, we will show the interest of an analysis of the symbolic production of armed groups that gives a prominent place to the motives of resistance and national liberation.

Transnational legal research often tends to overlook the local management of justice. It often moves too quickly from the local to the trans/global level, without taking the necessary time to investigate local practices. In addressing this research gap, my aim is to “re-localize“ studies within their geographical context and analyze the trans/national dynamics from within, using a bottom-up approach based on ethnography. This article presents a prolonged ethnography carried between 2017 and 2022 within French terrorism courts by a multidisciplinary team. The article provides an overview of the methodology, highlights the key finding, and offers a methodological framework for future empirical court studies, with the intention of supporting researchers in their future studies. La investigación jurídica transnacional a menudo tiende a pasar por alto la gestión local de la justicia. A menudo pasa demasiado rápido del nivel local al trans/global, sin tomarse el tiempo necesario para investigar las prácticas locales. Al abordar esta laguna en la investigación, mi objetivo es “relocalizar” los estudios dentro de su contexto geográfico y analizar las dinámicas trans/nacionales desde dentro, utilizando un enfoque ascendente basado en la etnografía. Este artículo presenta una etnografía prolongada llevada a cabo entre 2017 y 2022 dentro de los tribunales de terrorismo franceses por un equipo multidisciplinar. El artículo proporciona una visión general de la metodología, destaca el hallazgo clave y ofrece un marco metodológico para futuros estudios empíricos de tribunales, con la intención de apoyar a los investigadores en sus futuros estudios.

The Tri-Border Area between Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay is often seen as a lawless region, which ignores its character as a center of energy resources, commerce, and tourism. The focus of this article is to identify the representations about the region in Brazil’s two most widely read newspapers, the Folha de S.Paulo and O Globo, and if they reinforce these images. To do so, the concepts of framing and agenda-setting are used. A qualitative analysis was complemented by the use of NVivo software to detect the words most frequently associated with the region. The results indicate a predominance of issues related to illegalities in the press coverage, especially terrorism. Of the total texts about the Tri-Border Area published between 2011 and 2019, 55.5% in O Globo and 47% in Folha contained references to illegalities. The root terror- was present, respectively, in 39% and 40% of the texts. We conclude that the press coverage of the region does not follow specific events (event-driven). Members of security forces are the preeminent sources of reports, and the absence of dissonant voices tends to reinforce the region’s image of insecurity and the need for solutions that involve support border surveillance and control solutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Over the last two decades, 9/11 established itself as an object of interest for the academia, news outlets and the arts, generating a multitude of cultural artefacts that allow us, collectively, to revisit the event, reread it in different circumstances, and, ultimately, rewrite it. Employing rewriting as a metaphor for a continuous process of representation and revision, this article explores the remediation of the terrorist attack of 2001 and how representations of the event across time and different media help consolidate its place in cultural memory. With this purpose in mind, it analyzes John Updike’s Terrorist (2006) and TV series Designated Survivor (2016) and discusses them as after-effects of 9/11.