Gender and the Governance of Terrorism and Violent Extremism

Ann-Kathrin Rothermel is PhD candidate at the University of Potsdam, research fellow with the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism (IRMS), and academic advisor to the German Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb). Her research focuses on gender in online radicalization processes and transnational counterterrorism governance. Laura J. Shepherd is Professor of International Relations at the University of Sydney and a former Australian Research Council Future Fellow (2018-2022). Her primary research focuses on the United Nations Security Council’s Women, Peace and Security agenda, and attendant dynamics of gender, violence, and security governance.

Introduction: Gender and the governance of terrorism and violent extremism 1. Gender at the crossroads: the role of gender in the UN’s global counterterrorism reform at the humanitarian-development-peace nexus 2. Gender, race and Orientalism: the governance of terrorism and violent extremism in global and local perspective 3. Finding the right mix: re-evaluating the road to gender-equality in countering violent extremism programming 4. Beyond instrumentalisation: gender and agency in the prevention of extreme violence in Kenya 5. Logics of care and control: governing European “returnees” from Iraq and Syria 6. O sister, where art thou? Assessing the limits of gender mainstreaming in preventing and countering violent extremism in Mali 7. Lived realities and local meaning-making in defining violent extremism in Kenya: implications for preventing and countering violent extremism in policy and practice 8. Anti-feminism, gender and the far-right gap in C/PVE measures 9. Interrogating the “incel menace”: assessing the threat of male supremacy in terrorism studies 10. Governing the suicide bomber: reading terrorism studies as governmentality 11. “Unthinking” sexual violence in a neoliberal era of spectacular terror 12. White feminism and the governance of violent extremism