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Gender and Terrorism
No full textEven though conventional wisdom has it that women are not frequently involved in the political violence known as terrorism, women have in fact participated in the writing and dissemination of ideological beliefs, planning of attacks, and participation in such violence since, at a minimum, the mid-1800s. Terrorism studies grew as a field in the 1970s in response to the growing threat of substate violence in liberal democracies and anti-colonial violence, including from groups like the West German Red Army Faction, the Italian Red Brigades, the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN), or the Irish Republican Army. Women have always been studied in terrorism studies, even if this work is limited in volume and perspective. Thus, an analysis of terrorism from a gender perspective is relatively new, with publications that focus specifically on gender, as opposed to women, emerging only as recently as the early to mid-2000s. The feminist work started with the classic question, “Where are the women?” As such, it was seeking to determine where and how women were involved. It evolved into deconstructing gendered discourse, looking at the agency and performativity of the women and men involved in terrorism, as well as how terrorist organizations are gendered in the international system. “Mainstream” terrorism studies and critical/feminist approaches continue to develop side-by-side, sometimes in conversation with each other and sometimes not; this is most evident in the work on suicide terrorism, radicalization, and counterterrorism. However, different instantiations of feminist theory continue to drive the scholarship into more critical explorations, including “intimate” terrorism and queer theory.</p
This American moment : a feminist Christian realism intervention
No full textThis American Moment focuses on the concept of anxiety politics by arguing that America is in crisis. Those who uphold or participate in racist and misogynist politics are threatened by changes to the status quo, such as the economic gains made by women and therefore respond with reactivity and defensiveness. This book examines first, the Black Lives Matter campaign as the latest disruption of the raced structures that define America and the anxious reactions that seek to protect and maintain the race structures; second, the particular economic, bodily, and reproductive health vulnerabilities that women face that have amalgamated into America’s War on Women as anxious reactions to maintain patriarchy; and, finally, the how racism and misogyny unwittingly and rather unexpectedly led to the election of Trump and opened the door to fascism in the United States. The book argues that these are all destructive outcomes of anxiety and responds by envisioning a creative intervention: arguing that an alternative response to anxiety is to think creatively about our relationships, society, and politics. The author poses this as feminist Christian realism, an update of Reinhold Niebuhr’s Christian realism, arguing that religious approaches still have a place in politics and international relations
This American moment:a feminist Christian realism intervention
No full textThis American Moment focuses on the concept of anxiety politics by arguing that America is in crisis. Those who uphold or participate in racist and misogynist politics are threatened by changes to the status quo, such as the economic gains made by women and therefore respond with reactivity and defensiveness. This book examines first, the Black Lives Matter campaign as the latest disruption of the raced structures that define America and the anxious reactions that seek to protect and maintain the race structures; second, the particular economic, bodily, and reproductive health vulnerabilities that women face that have amalgamated into America’s War on Women as anxious reactions to maintain patriarchy; and, finally, the how racism and misogyny unwittingly and rather unexpectedly led to the election of Trump and opened the door to fascism in the United States. The book argues that these are all destructive outcomes of anxiety and responds by envisioning a creative intervention: arguing that an alternative response to anxiety is to think creatively about our relationships, society, and politics. The author poses this as feminist Christian realism, an update of Reinhold Niebuhr’s Christian realism, arguing that religious approaches still have a place in politics and international relations
The Future of Just War
Get PDFThese essays seek to reorient the Just War tradition around its core concerns of preventing the unjust use of force by states and limiting the harm inflicted on vulnerable populations such as civilian noncombatants. Contributors argue that the tradition needs to be updated to deal with substate actors within the realm of legitimate authority, private military companies, and the questionable moral difference between the use of conventional and nuclear weapons. Additionally, as recent policy makers and scholars have tried to make the Just War criteria legalistic, they have weakened the tradition’s ability to draw from and adjust to its contemporaneous setting
The Future of Just War
Get PDFThese essays seek to reorient the Just War tradition around its core concerns of preventing the unjust use of force by states and limiting the harm inflicted on vulnerable populations such as civilian noncombatants. Contributors argue that the tradition needs to be updated to deal with substate actors within the realm of legitimate authority, private military companies, and the questionable moral difference between the use of conventional and nuclear weapons. Additionally, as recent policy makers and scholars have tried to make the Just War criteria legalistic, they have weakened the tradition’s ability to draw from and adjust to its contemporaneous setting
Resistance, reproduction, attachment : unsettling gender through cosplay
No full textMost stories told in popular culture can be understood as being embedded in
martial politics, or as militarised; as violent, gendered narratives that invest and
are invested in normalising traditional normative social orders. Cosplay – a
portmanteau of the words ‘costume’ and ‘play’ – is the act of dressing up as and
imitating characters from popular culture, most commonly at fan conventions.
The cosplayer becomes immersed in the narrative and the character. How, then,
can we understand how the martial discourses of popular culture is enacted upon
and by the body through cosplay? (How) can this enactment and embodiment be
theorised as a form of resistance? What is the intersection between the
desirability of these aesthetically gendered narratives, and the pleasure of the
embodiment? These embodiments are often described as engendering a sense of
liberation and empowerment in the cosplayer. I argue that the affective
physicality of the performance of an-other, and the social legitimation of that
performance, results in the cosplayer’s embodiment of those gendered aesthetics
becoming a site of resistance. Furthermore, I argue that in this embodiment of
an-other, the very notion of a stable self breaks apart, as the feeling-with the
character engenders a reflexive dissonance that destabilises the dichotomy
between self and other. In order to investigate this, I used autoethnography to
observe the affects of this process on myself, as well as noting the behaviour and
comments of others I encountered at fan conventions, and on online cosplay
communities. I investigate this (re)appropriation of the hegemonic culturally
produced desire for the gendered, militarised aesthetics by the core consumers of
these aesthetic narratives, arguing that the cosplayer’s embodiment of militarised
narratives becomes a form of what I term resistance within reproduction
The Future of Just War
No full textThese essays seek to reorient the Just War tradition around its core concerns of preventing the unjust use of force by states and limiting the harm inflicted on vulnerable populations such as civilian noncombatants. Contributors argue that the tradition needs to be updated to deal with substate actors within the realm of legitimate authority, private military companies, and the questionable moral difference between the use of conventional and nuclear weapons. Additionally, as recent policy makers and scholars have tried to make the Just War criteria legalistic, they have weakened the tradition’s ability to draw from and adjust to its contemporaneous setting
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