Gender and the Governance of Terrorism and Violent Extremism

Ann-Kathrin Rothermel, Laura J. Shepherd, Ann-Kathrin Rothermel, Laura J. Shepherd

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781032463476
• eBook ISBN: 9781000872620
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Military & Maritime History
• Index: History

This book brings together a variety of innovative perspectives on the inclusion of gender in the governance of (counter-)terrorism and violent extremism.

Several global governance initiatives launched in recent years have explicitly sought to integrate concern for gender equality and gendered harms into efforts to counter terrorism and violent extremism (CT/CVE). As a result, commitments to gender-sensitivity and gender equality in international and regional CT/CVE initiatives, in national action plans and at the level of civil society programming, ´have become a common aspect of the multilevel governance of terrorism and violent extremism. In light of these developments, there is a need for more systematic analysis of how concerns about gender are being incorporated in the governance of (counter-)terrorism and violent extremism and how it has affected (gendered) practices and power relations in counterterrorism policy-making and implementation.

Ranging from the processes of global and regional integration of gender into the governance of terrorism, via the impact of the shift on government responses to the return of foreign fighters, to state and civil society-led CVE programming and academic discussions, the essays engage with the origins and dynamics behind recent shifts which bring gender to the forefront of the governance of terrorism. This book will be of great value to researchers and scholars interested in gender, governance and terrorism.

The chapters in this book were originally published in Critical Studies on Terrorism.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Citation Information
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction: Gender and the governance of terrorism and violent extremism
• Gender at the crossroads: the role of gender in the UN's global counterterrorism reform at the humanitarian-development-peace nexus
• Gender, race and Orientalism: the governance of terrorism and violent extremism in global and local perspective
• Finding the right mix: re-evaluating the road to gender-equality in countering violent extremism programming
• Beyond instrumentalisation: gender and agency in the prevention of extreme violence in Kenya
• Logics of care and control: governing European “returnees” from Iraq and Syria
• O sister, where art thou? Assessing the limits of gender mainstreaming in preventing and countering violent extremism in Mali
• Lived realities and local meaning-making in defining violent extremism in Kenya: implications for preventing and countering violent extremism in policy and practice
• Anti-feminism, gender and the far-right gap in C/PVE measures
• Interrogating the “incel menace”: assessing the threat of male supremacy in terrorism studies
• Governing the suicide bomber: reading terrorism studies as governmentality
• “Unthinking” sexual violence in a neoliberal era of spectacular terror
• White feminism and the governance of violent extremism
• Index