Epistemological failures: everyday terrorism in the West

Gentry, Caron E.

doi:10.1080/17539153.2015.1081754

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“…Reflecting these insights, I suggest that the ‘war’/’not-war’ divide serves, likewise, to reproduce the traditional and simplistic story of war as a (masculinised) struggle between coherent collectives each seeking to protect their ‘womenandchildren’ (Enloe, 1993: 166) from external harm. In addition, the exclusion of domestic violence, widely recognised as prevalent in the Global North, from the category of ‘war violence’ serves to reproduce the imaged divide between the Global South as a space of (senseless) war and the North as a space of (rational) peace (for a similar discussion in relation to ‘everyday terrorism’ see Gentry, 2015). As Parashar suggests, telling different war stories, such as those which highlight women’s participation in war as fighters, can disrupt the dominant narrative and support demands by women to claim a stake in peace, as well as in war (Parashar, 2014: 184).…”

Section: Concluding Remarks: the ‘War’/‘not-war’ Dividementioning

confidence: 99%

The ‘war’/‘not-war’ divide: Domestic violence in the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative

Gray

2018

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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While recognising the importance of policy designed to tackle conflict-related sexual and gender-based violence, scholars have increasingly critiqued such policies for failing sufficiently to apprehend the multiple forms of this violence – from rape deployed as a weapon of war to domestic violence – as interrelated oppressions located along a continuum. In this article, I explore a connected but distinct line of critique, arguing that sexual and gender-based violence policies are also limited by a narrow understanding of how gender-based violences relate to war itself. Drawing on an analysis of the British Government’s Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative, I identify a key distinction which emerges between those types of sexual and gender-based violence which are considered to be part of war, and those which are not. This division, I suggest, closes down space for recognising how war is also enacted within private spaces.

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Section: Concluding Remarks: the ‘War’/‘not-war’ Dividementioning

confidence: 99%

The ‘war’/‘not-war’ divide: Domestic violence in the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative

Gray

2018

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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“…Whereas the main focus of the study of emotions in IR is how emotions are the limited articulation of affect, emotions are fundamentally relational as emotions construct and sustain communities (Ahmed 2006), in both positive (Fierke 2004) and negative ways (Solomon 2012;Gentry 2015b). Thus, emotions play into and help construct previously known narratives and structures, including self/other identity and conceptualisations of security (Edkins 2004;Hutchison 2013).…”

Section: Love and Anxiety: Compromises In Christian Realismmentioning

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Anxiety politics: creativity and feminist Christian realism

Gentry

2017

J Int Relat Dev

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The aim of this article is to articulate Feminist Christian Realism and how it differs from Reinhold Niebuhr's Christian Realism. As one of the most influential Christian Realists, Niebuhr's thinking on world affairs continues to influence the discipline of International Relations and politicians. Fundamental to Niebuhr's thinking is how anxiety over human vulnerability is settled: either through destructive acts or creative acts. In light of feminist thought, Niebuhr's creativity in the face of anxiety needs to be reconsidered as it minimises the role of emotions, particularly love, and the perspective and experiences of individuals. Thus, Feminist Christian Realism agrees with Christian Realism that power and justice are important considerations, but that these need to be seen through a love-informed creative lens. In order to demonstrate how a creatively informed Feminist Christian Realism differs, the article starts and ends with different approaches to the threat of terrorism, which is a deeply anxious security concern in the 21 st Century.

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“…At first glance, these articles are about different things- Thayer and Hudson (2010) are talking about suicide bombing, while Gentry is talking about in-home violence between intimate partners. They also differ significantly ontologically, where Thayer and Hudson (2010) take a life sciences approach to suggest the naturalness of heterosexuality, sexual needs, and sex differentiation, and Gentry (2015) takes a postcolonial feminist approach to see state and gender identities as coconstituted by intimate and international violence. Finally, they differ epistemologically, where Thayer and Hudson (2010) are interested in the causes of terrorism, and Gentry (2015) is interested in the representations of terrorisms.…”

Section: Sex Gender and Terrorismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Still, we think that these perspectives, which both discuss gender and terrorism in the international arena (if very differently), can be usefully brought into dialogue. In important ways, Gentry's (2015) analysis can be read as a critique of Thayer and Hudson's (2010) framework and conclusions, though Gentry does not explicitly make such a critique. Gentry's (2015) piece might critique Thayer and Hudson's (2010) in two main ways.…”

Section: Sex Gender and Terrorismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In important ways, Gentry's (2015) analysis can be read as a critique of Thayer and Hudson's (2010) framework and conclusions, though Gentry does not explicitly make such a critique. Gentry's (2015) piece might critique Thayer and Hudson's (2010) in two main ways. First, Gentry's analysis of the ''discursive screens'' which constitute certain gendered images (e.g., the prevalence of everyday terrorism outside the West) as possible and certain gendered images (e.g., the prevalence of everyday terrorism in the West) impossible can be read into seeing the blind spots that make Thayer and Hudson's sex-driven analysis of gender and terrorism possible-particularly that of the female suicide bomber.…”

Section: Sex Gender and Terrorismmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Reevaluating Gender and IR Scholarship

Sjoberg

Kadera

Thies

2016

Journal of Conflict Resolution

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We seek a more accurate review of, and reflection on the gender and international relations (IR) literature than that offered by Reiter. Our evaluation corrects misunderstandings related to key dichotomies (mis)used in analyzing scholarship: sex/gender, positivism/nonpositivism, and epistemology/ontology. It also underscores the comparative strengths and weaknesses of different types of research in order to identify more fruitful possibilities for synthesis. We make the pluralist case that gender and IR research is at its best when it is multimethod, epistemologically pluralist, multisited, and carefully navigates the differences between feminist analyses and large-n statistical studies. The potential payoff of careful, synergistic engagement is worth any risks.

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Epistemological failures: everyday terrorism in the West

Cited by 15 publications

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The ‘war’/‘not-war’ divide: Domestic violence in the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative

The ‘war’/‘not-war’ divide: Domestic violence in the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative

Anxiety politics: creativity and feminist Christian realism

Reevaluating Gender and IR Scholarship

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