This repository provides the data and script necessary to reproduce the results of the article Political Islam as Discursive Practice. [1] It also includes a shiny app as an accessible approach to try out the methods used in the article.
- Includes the corpus of founding statements and self descriptions of opposition groups in the Syrian Conflict. See the folder 'corpus' for all the documents in .txt format.
- The folder 'support_files' contains .csv files with meta data of the documents and organisations, as well as the lists of stop words, stemmed characters and English translations that were used.
- The script 'islamism_as_discursive_practice.R' has the basic analysis. The text_mining and analysis follows the approach as set out by Lebart et al [2].
- At the end, the script includes a (optional) call to a interactive shiny application that includes all the tables, plots and texts that were referenced in the article.
This is a simple R script.
To run, download the file into a local folder and run the script from there. The script installs any missing required packages.
- [1] Donker, Teije Hidde. 2021. ‘Political Islam as Discursive Practice: The Social Construction of Political Ideas in Contentious Episodes’. In ECPR Joint Sessions - Hybrid Pathways to Resistance in the Muslim World: Islamist Groups and the Modern State in a Comparative Perspective. European Consortium for Political Research. The paper is available here.
- [2] Lebart, Ludovic, A. Salem, and L. Berry. 1997. Exploring Textual Data. Springer Science & Business Media