Introduction: gender and everyday/intimate terrorism

Sjoberg, Laura; Gentry, Caron E.

doi:10.1080/17539153.2015.1084204

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“…However, as Sjoberg and Gentry (2015: 358, emphasis in original) note, 'Looking at where women are and where gender is shows that war, terrorism and insecurity are as often in the bedroom as on the battlefield, and as often in the family home as in houses of government '. Pain's (2015) aforementioned work renders clear that both domestic violence and international warfare can be described as 'intimate war'.…”

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Feminist geolegality

Brickell

Cuomo

2017

Progress in Human Geography

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In this paper we outline the case for feminist geolegality, a project that integrates legal geography and feminist geopolitics. The approach captures the myriad ways that law intermeshes with intimate corollaries of geopolitics and geoeconomics. It includes yet surpasses scholarship on international lawfare and military conflict to examine intimate wars that law mediates in the more mundane battlefields of everyday life. The body and home act as heuristic sites to review existing work and future trajectories of feminist geolegality. Its significance is marked further by the era of Trumpism, the gendered spatial and temporal legal implications of which are explored.

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Feminist geolegality

Brickell

Cuomo

2017

Progress in Human Geography

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“…The most recent CTS developments to aid in our unpacking of everyday violence globally have combined feminist perspectives from International Relations and cognate disciplines and have emphasised the gendered nature of political violence and its representations. For an overview of this diverse and complex body of work, see Sjoberg and Gentry (2015). 4.…”

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Critical terrorism studies, victimisation, and policy relevance: compromising politics or challenging hegemony?

McGowan

2016

Critical Studies on Terrorism

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This article considers the key contributions Critical Terrorism Studies (CTS) has made to our understanding of victimisation, contending that while CTS has greatly expanded our knowledge in certain areas, it has hitherto failed to adequately engage with victims and survivors of terrorist attacks. It argues that CTS has the capacity to afford greater space to marginalised survivor narratives and representations of victimhood which are often used to justify prevailing responses to terrorist violence. Finally, it suggests that this represents an important juncture for CTS to reflect upon the issue of vulnerability in its pursuit of more progressive policy agendas.

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“…However, governments often use these kinds of alleged threats to legitimise violent interventions to protect common societal values and interests and to create and sustain the fear of a threat (Cohen, 2011). Such a strategy can also be seen in the ways that governments throughout the world fortify their national security against internal and external threats, such as terrorism (Sjoberg & Gentry, 2015). Further, such a security strategy can enable governments to use security measures on its opponents that would normally not be tolerated, such as the use of extreme violence.…”

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“…Going to work, picking up children from school or going to demonstrations, the participants felt alert to being harassed, attacked, robbed or even killed. These statements demonstrate how violence affects women emotionally and 'what it means to live' (Sjoberg & Gentry, 2015); it begins with the feeling in one's body of having one's rights violated. In such cases, women's perceptions of unsafety were a product of systemic and structural violence rather than actual attacks (Sweet & Ortiz Escalante, 2015).…”

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Complicating notions of violence: An embodied view of violence against women in Honduras

Jokela-Pansini

2020

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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Feminist geographic analysis has demonstrated that violence inflicted on women is embodied, experienced and personal and at the same time, linked to global socio-political and economic processes and patriarchal norms. Consequently, violence is a complex system instead of a norm located in certain places. In heavily militarised societies, patriarchal power regimes are even more prevalent because states’ security strategies promote a masculinist understanding of protection as to who should be protected and by whom – and from what. This study draws on feminist geopolitical analysis and explores how feminist activists in Honduras experience and resist violence in their everyday lives. The research is grounded in interviews, focus-group discussions and participant observation with Honduran activists. The findings demonstrate that violence and its effects are first embedded in women’s everyday lives through feelings of fear and unsafety on the streets, at the workplace and at home. Second, violence operates through structures and institutions such as the military and police, impunity for violence against women and the juridical restriction of reproductive rights. Third, the internationally financed war on drugs and ‘development’ projects contribute to violence, thus, there is a link between intimate experiences of violence and global economic and military powers that sustain violence. Activists therefore argue that, for their needs, the state’s and international organisations’ security approaches are inadequate. The paper weaves together feminist visions of collective self-care and discusses activists’ strategies against violence. This study contributes to a growing feminist geographic scholarship linking women’s bodily experiences with violence and responds to calls for complicating notions of violence.

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Introduction: gender and everyday/intimate terrorism

Cited by 19 publications

References 21 publications

Feminist geolegality

Feminist geolegality

Critical terrorism studies, victimisation, and policy relevance: compromising politics or challenging hegemony?

Complicating notions of violence: An embodied view of violence against women in Honduras

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