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Performing terror, communicating fear: Analysing terrorism as performance of violence

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Media, War & Conflict

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Abstract

Media, War & Conflict, Volume 19, Issue 1, Page 173-189, March 2026.
This study conceptualizes terrorist acts as performance of violence. It concentrates on how Jama’atu Ahlis Sunnah Lida’awati Wal Jihad, a transnational terrorist group commonly known as Boko Haram, stages dramatic spectacles to generate public fear and ...