Women, Gender and Daesh Radicalisation

Pearson, Elizabeth; Winterbotham, Emily

doi:10.1080/03071847.2017.1353251

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“…They also highlighted their perceptions of limited support mechanisms available, including that of the local mosque and local community initiatives, because they were non-Muslims and therefore not the immediate targets of P/CVE activities. 34 The women's interviews revealed the ways in which the framing of radicalization links particular (immigrant) experiences with extremism and excludes white youth or other youth without a Muslim heritage from discussion of vulnerability.…”

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The Radical Milieu: A Methodological Approach to Conducting Research on Violent Extremism

Winterbotham¹,

Pearson²

2020

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One of the biggest challenges to conducting research on radicalization to violent extremism is how to further knowledge in the absence of easy access to radical individuals. This lack of access makes it particularly difficult to fulfill the demand for original data on radicalization to violent extremism and on strategies to counter it. This chapter presents the Royal United Services Institute's (RUSI) effort to overcome this challenge. RUSI's milieu approach takes into consideration the importance of the context in which specific cases of radicalization take place. This is based on an understanding that research participants within these areas are able to relay contextual information about potential grievances or broader incentives impacting radicalization. The chapter highlights that these participants are frequently able to share actual knowledge of radicalization based on their lived experiences and knowledge of events affecting friends, colleagues, and family members. This approach additionally recognizes the expertise of local communities and positions authorities to learn from them. The chapter presents the theoretical basis and the practical implications (site selection, identifying and accessing participants; selecting research methods; and analyzing data) of applying the milieu approach using case study examples of research conducted by RUSI. These include a five-country study (UK, Canada, France, Germany and the Netherlands) on gender and radicalization, research on radicalization among internally displaced persons (IDPs) and host communities in Iraq, and the radicalization of Central Asian labor migrants in Russia. The chapter highlights the challenges faced, ways of overcoming them, and key takeaways and recommendations for those interested in applying the milieu approach.

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The Radical Milieu: A Methodological Approach to Conducting Research on Violent Extremism

Winterbotham¹,

Pearson²

2020

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“…The clear-cut gender ideologies described by Necef (2016) and van Leuven and colleagues (2016) may also appeal to young Muslim women in the West, perhaps because they offer a positive revaluation of Muslim femininities that are otherwise problematized and othered in current Western societies. Paradoxically, adhering to an ideology of strict gender division may -at least for a period -be experienced as empowering by young women who join the ranks of radical Islamism (Pearson and Winterbotham, 2017).…”

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Sociological perspectives on Islamist radicalization – bridging the micro/macro gap

Jensen

Larsen

2019

European Journal of Criminology

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Radicalization research has been characterized by a sharp opposition between micro and macro perspectives. This article discusses three existing theoretical perspectives and argues that they may bridge the micro/macro gap. A masculinity, gender and intersectionality perspective can help analyse radicalization as a strategy for remasculinization by situating feelings of emasculation in a broader societal frame. A neo-Birminghamian conception of subculture relates individual and group processes to a broader social context by viewing radicalization as an oppositional answer to a shared situation of social and economic marginalization, and othering. Sociology of religious emotions provides an understanding of how emotional outcomes of social marginality can be transformed into individual religious emotions within radical Islamist groups.

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“…Experts in the culture of Muslim women report how important was for the radicalization of women their perception of rejection from their community linked to feeling marginalized, disqualified, and victimized because wearing traditional Muslim clothes [55]. In conclusion, radicalized women are equally important in the scenario of an international terrorist.…”

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Psychiatry of Radicalization and Terrorism in the Lone Wolf, Children, and Women: An <i>E</i>-ethnographic Approach for Analysis

Lazzari¹,

Nusair²,

Rabottini³

2019

AJPN

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Radicalization is a global event affecting different countries and present in different historical contexts. Psychiatrists can help in the analysis of radicalization in individuals who operate autonomously from more radicalized groups. These lone actors or lone wolves are more difficult to spot as there is no unique identification because they operate as self-determined women or men. A focus of the current study is on the radicalization of children and women. The use of ethnographic research also using Internet sources has provided satisfactory results in the analysis of radicalization while reducing the risk and difficulties of approaching a sample population (terrorists, lone wolves, and radical groups) that, most of the time, is remote, dangerous and concealed to public scrutiny. Emphasis is also provided to the stages of development of radicalized thought and how radicalization can be understood in terms of cognitive and social development of the lone-wolf terrorist. The authors also explore how a radicalized leader can lever on the vulnerability of some individuals to radicalize them. Besides, the authors approach radicalized thought also as a logical fallacy and as a sign of dualistic thinking. Hence, a mix of cognitive, logical, and psychiatric triggers is analyzed in their potential to radicalize.

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Women, Gender and Daesh Radicalisation

Cited by 47 publications

References 12 publications

The Radical Milieu: A Methodological Approach to Conducting Research on Violent Extremism

The Radical Milieu: A Methodological Approach to Conducting Research on Violent Extremism

Sociological perspectives on Islamist radicalization – bridging the micro/macro gap

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Cited by 47 publications

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The Radical Milieu: A Methodological Approach to Conducting Research on Violent Extremism

The Radical Milieu: A Methodological Approach to Conducting Research on Violent Extremism

Sociological perspectives on Islamist radicalization – bridging the micro/macro gap

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