Disordered Violence

How Gender, Race and Heteronormativity Structure Terrorism

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

Av Caron Gentry, University of St Andrews) Gentry, Caron (Professor in the School of International Relations

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A feminist interrogation of how terrorism is constructed as a violence that upsets the order of international politics. This book looks at how gender, race, and heteronormative expectations of public life shape Western understandings of terrorism as irrational, immoral and illegitimate. It looks at the profiles of eight well-known terrorist actors, looking for gendered, racial, and sexualised assumptions in how their stories are told. Additionally, it interrogates how the current counterterrorism focus upon radicalisation is another way of constructing terrorists outside of the Western ideal. Finally, the book argues that mainstream Terrorism Studies must contend with the growing misogynist and racialised violence against women.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-12-14
Mått156 x 234 x 20 mm
Vikt344 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieAdvances in Critical Military Studies
Antal sidor216
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474491891

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In this book, Gentry sheds some light on how and why terrorism is problematic in international politics. The disorder of terrorism challenges the dominant system and this violence needs to be seen as irrational, illegitimate and immoral. Gentry’s reflection is therefore crucial to rethink Terrorism Studies and, above all, Critical Terrorism Studies [CTS] …Her intersectional feminist analysis will thus help CTS not only to deconstruct hegemonic discourses of (counter-)terrorism but understand how and why certain violence is accepted – and even legitimated – while other kinds are not … Gentry’s reflection on the hegemonies constituting the international order is a timely and enriching contribution to CTS, one that needs to be put at the core of critical understandings of terrorism aimed at shedding light on the dimensions of power structuring political violence.