Jihadi audiovisuality and its entanglements : meanings aesthetics appropriations Explores the use of images sounds and videos in Jihadi media and how people engage with themFosters theoretical approaches to audiovisuality in the context of ‘propagandistic’ imageryPoints to strategies and logics of appropriation within and around Jihadi audiovisuality such as humour re enactments and memetic forms of cultural resistanceConsiders cultural and aesthetic expressions that evolve in response to Jihadi media output Presents empirically grounded research combined with historical multi modal rhetorical ethnomusicological and digital audio visual analysis and interpretationsCase studies include: an exploration of: staged violence in IS productions; the appropriation of IS’s nashīd Ṣalīl al Ṣawārim in digital contexts; the responses by social workers and former supporters of jihadi groups and movements; and how researchers themselves are part of the entanglements caused by politicisation and securitisation of IslamISIS is often described as a terrorist organisation that uses social media to empower its supporters and reinforce its message. Through 12 case studies this book examines the different ways in which Jihadi groups and their supporters use visualisation sound production and aesthetic means to articulate their cause in online as well as offline contexts.Divided into four thematic sections the chapters probe Jihadi appropriation of traditional and popular cultural expressions and show how in turn political activists appropriate extremist media to oppose and resist the propaganda. By conceptualising militant Islamist audiovisual productions as part of global media aesthetics and practices the authors shed light on how religious actors artists civil society activists global youth political forces security agencies and researchers engage with mediated manifestations of Jihadi ideology to deconstruct reinforce defy or oppose the messages