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Urban Terror: The Case of Lone Wolf Peter Mangs
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Theology, Department of Theology, History of Religions. Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Theology, Centre for Multidisciplinary Studies on Racism. (Impact of Religion)
2018 (English)In: Terrorism and Political Violence, ISSN 0954-6553, E-ISSN 1556-1836, Vol. 30, no 5, p. 793-811Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

White racist serial killer Peter Mangs is the most politically conscious lone wolf terrorist Sweden has seen thus far. Adopting the tactics of Joseph Paul Franklin to the city of Malmö, Mangs committed at least three murders and twelve murder attempts between 2003 and 2010. Well-versed in white power literature and leaderless resistance tactics, Mangs aimed at “igniting a race war” by shooting Black, Muslim, and Roma citizens to amplify racialized tensions, grievances, and anxieties in the increasingly segregated city. Yet, Mangs is not included in any database of single-actor terrorism, as these depend on how a perpetrator or incident is defined by the police, the courts, and the media. In this case, Mangs’ political motives were ignored by everyone, except by people in the targeted communities and the white racist milieu. This fact highlights the importance of ethnographic methods to terrorism studies. Based on ten three-hour interviews with Mangs, an analysis of his own political writings, previously not known to the public, interviews with Mangs’ victims, their friends and relatives, and extensive fieldwork in Malmö among activists across the political spectrum, including people who hailed Mangs’ deeds as heroic, this essay explores the impact of urban lone wolf terrorism.

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London: Taylor & Francis Group, 2018. Vol. 30, no 5, p. 793-811
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Lone wolf; political violence; racism; single-actor terrorism; ultranationalism
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Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
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History of Religions
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URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-350015DOI: 10.1080/09546553.2018.1444796ISI: 000444572900003OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-350015DiVA, id: diva2:1203249
Available from: 2018-05-02 Created: 2018-05-02 Last updated: 2018-11-15Bibliographically approved

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