- Description
- 1 online resource (xi, 281 pages)
- Summary
- "This volume offers a feminist critique of counter- and deradicalization programmes, including those collected under the umbrella of 'preventing and countering violent extremis'. Based on insights from five countries, and examples from elsewhere, the book shows how collectively efforts rely on particular narratives of agency, security and human rights. Putting gender at the centre of analysis reveals a series of significant limitations in anti-radicalisation work, in construction, operation, and evaluation. First, these programmes fail to explore or engage with how masculinity and femininity inform the radicalisation process. As a result, they cannot successfully understand the personal drivers or the socio-political environment of these programmes. Second, within the operations of these programmes it becomes clear that male radicalisation is unreflectively linked to an excessive but flawed masculinity, whilst ideas about women's radicalisation depend on orientalist stereotypes about passivity and subjugation. Solutions for male deradicalisation therefore hinge on particular ideals of masculinity that few men can obtain, and deradicalising women is seen as a rescue mission. Third, the impact of these programmes derives from a racialized paternalist logic that justifies intervention in 'ordinary lives' in the name of security, yet fails to deliver. There is a gendered differential in the impact of counter-radicalisation measures. Although the rhetoric of countering terrorism is often couched in a narrative of 'women's rights' and 'liberal values', the book demonstrates the consequences are often detrimental to these precepts. The book concludes by offering an alternative way of thinking about and implementing anti-radicalisation efforts, rooted in a feminist peace"--
- Series Statement
- Oxford studies in gender and international relations
- Uniform Title
- Gender, religion, extremism (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Gender, religion, extremism (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-268) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Country focus and global endeavours -- Groomed and seduced -- Moderate women and violent youths -- Mothers and wives -- Fathers and heroes -- The anti-radicalisation protection racket.
- LCCN
- 2019053605
- OCLC
- ssj0002310367
- Author
Brown, Katherine E.
- Title
Gender, religion, extremism [electronic resource] : finding women in anti-radicalization / Katherine E. Brown.
- Imprint
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]
- Series
Oxford studies in gender and international relations
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-268) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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