Zacharias P. Pieri's research while affiliated with University of South Florida Sarasota Manatee and other places
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Publications (9)
he nonviolent activities of extremists have the capacity to shed important light on how such groups think and frame the world around them. This paper provides a comparative insight into the framing activities of Islamic State and white power (WP) groups through an analysis of the song lyrics that have emerged from these scenes. In doing so, we seek...
White extremism in the U.S. has not received much attention in the literature, despite scholars arguing that it represents the most sustained form of terrorism in the U.S. While much of the research on extremist movements has focused on the groups’ violent acts, there has been significantly less attention on the nonviolent activities, such as music...
Boko Haram's operations and ideology have been the subject of increasing research in recent years. This article, in contrast, explores the culture of Boko Haram through an ethnographic analysis of the group's internal videos that were not intended for public release. The authors find that in their everyday lives Boko Haram foot soldiers are differe...
In 2017, the Southern Poverty Law Center revealed that nearly 950 hate groups operated in the United States, a 4% increase from the year prior. Similarly, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) found a 57% rise in anti-Semitic incidents in the United States in 2017, which represents the largest single year increase by the ADL since 1979. This explosion i...
There is an extensive literature on the ramifications of corruption for economic growth, as well as for democracy. Largely unexplored, however, is how corruption works to lessen government legitimacy and empower violent anti-state movements. In this article, the perception of corruption in Nigeria is considered. Noting that Nigeria must suppress th...
To Boko Haram, Nigeria is a colonial construct, lacking Islamic legitimacy and destined to lead society in a downward spiral of Western immorality. The only way to regain northern Nigeria’s former glory is through a repudiation of democracy, constitutionalism, and Western values and a return to Islamic governance on the model of the historic caliph...
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... The military styled authoritarian character of governance in the country promotes weak rule of law and abuse of the Constitution, guarantees impunity of security forces, absence of freedoms, extra-judicial killings and unimaginable number of political assassinations, genocide, incarcerations and indefinite detentions without charges or trials, destruction of property by security forces, motorists' harassment and extortion by security personnel, rapes and child abuse etc. [54,55]. Available records reveal that between 2006 and 2014, 12,078 civilians were killed extra-judicially by security forces [56,57,58,59]. Other atrocities and human rights abuses prevailing in Nigeria up to 2016 was summarised in the following words: ...
... Music line-ups are vitally important for far-right festival success. Typical genres include white power ballads [62], Rechstrock [51], neo-Nazi punk [63], hyper-nationalist rap [64] and National Socialist Black Metal-NSBM [65]. NSBM is now an important aesthetic/affective signature of many neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups. ...
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... y actividades delictivas como la extorsión y el robo 74 . Respecto a las armas, se han encontrado recibos de viajes a Libia que sugieren que las armas llegan desde el norte de África pasando por las rutas tradicionales del imperio kanuri75 . ...
... Henceforth, Boko Haram insurgents became militaristic, often targeting government critical institutions, particularly security agencies and educational facilities. Subsequently, the group expanded its scope of violence to include civilian targets (Pieri, 2019). Boko Haram insurgency has caused the death and displacement of many people both within and across the neighboring countries. ...
... To secure their survival and continuation, these organizations continue to utilize their platforms to fan the flames of violence and extremism. (Pieri and Zenn 2018;Prud'homme 2019, p. 8). ...
... Their tasks basically were patrolling of streets, guarding of Churches (Gana, 2019). The news of this single act spread across communities and towns, and the state at large, and soon, civilians at the grassroots began to mobilise as counter forces against Boko Haram, using mostly sticks, cutlasses, daggers, bows and arrows as weapons (Pieri, 2016). This practice also spread to neighboring Yobe and Adamawa because of the moral philosophy and motivation of taking action to protect one's community against an aggressormostly considered the outsider. ...
