Disordered Violence: How Gender, Race and Heteronormativity Structure Terrorism
Caron Gentry
Abstract
Disordered Violence argues that neither mainstream nor critical Terrorism Studies scholarship goes far enough in interrogating the structures that determine how terrorism is understood and therefore countered. As an alternative, this book demonstrates that gender, racial, and heteronormative structures that determine hierarchies between states and non-states, forms of violence, and different people are behind how the West approaches terrorism. Drawing upon an intersectional and post-structural feminist critique, Disordered Violence interrogates the persistence of the ‘definition debate’ with ... More
Keywords: Feminism, Intersectionality, Race, Heteronormativity, post-structuralism, terrorism, misogyny, rationality
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2020 | Print ISBN-13: 9781474424806 |
| Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: September 2020 | DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9781474424806.001.0001 |
