“Today I Die like Jesus Christ”: An Analysis of Ressentiment in Perceptions, Motivations and Justifications of Violent Extremist Manifestos
“Today I Die like Jesus Christ”: An Analysis of Ressentiment in Perceptions, Motivations and Justifications of Violent Extremist Manifestos
Tereza Capelos Kaitlyn DaVisio Mikko Salmela a Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Southampton, Southampton, UKb School of Public Affairs, American University, Washington, DC, USAc Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL), American University, Washington, DC, USAd Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmarke Practical Philosophy, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, FinlandTereza Capelos (she/her) is Professor of Political Psychology at the University of Southampton, Former President of the International Society of Political Psychology, Standing Group co-Convener for the Political Psychology Standing Group of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) and co-editor of the Palgrave Studies in Political Psychology. Tereza studies the psychological processes, mechanisms, and dynamics that explain political behaviour. Her recent work focuses on grievance politics and particularly on resentful emotionality and reactionary orientations as determinants of anti-democratic and authoritarian political preferences.Kaitlyn DaVisio (she/her) is a Ph.D. student at American University in the Department of Justice, Law & Criminology and a Graduate Student Research Associate at PERIL. She received her M.A. in International Security & Terrorism at the University of Birmingham, UK and her B.A. in Criminology, Law, & Society at the University of California, Irvine. She has previously worked on projects funded by the Department of Defense Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security and the National Institute of Justice. Kaitlyn’s current research interests include far-right and comparative extremism, extremist narratives, and the psychology of radicalization.Mikko Salmela (he/him) is Associate Professor at the Centre for Subjectivity Research at the University of Copenhagen and adjunct professor of practical philosophy and a member of the Helsinki Hub on Emotions, Populism, and Polarisation (HEPPsinki) at the University of Helsinki. His main research interests are in empirically informed philosophy of emotion, philosophical and political psychology, and philosophy of sociality.