[Commlist] Cfp: Unraveling Violence, Gendered Extremism: CMC

/Call for papers: **/

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*Special Issue on **Unraveling Violence, Gendered Extremism: 
Interdisciplinary and Global Perspectives and Challenges*

The Journal /Crime Media Culture 
//https://journals.sagepub.com/home/cmc/<https://journals.sagepub.com/home/cmc>//

What constitutes violent extremism? Could violent extremism ever be 
considered a legitimate social reaction? Would critical analyses on 
gender provide a better understanding of extremism when we turn towards 
the so-called Global South? Can we explore the cultural alienation 
processes that generate gendered extremism violence in a mediatized 
global context?  This call for papers titled “Unraveling Violence, 
Gendered Extremism” aims to explore the ways in which gender is used to 
explain and narrate extremist violence such as terrorism and mass 
violence events like rampage killings.

This special Issue of the Journal /Crime Media Culture/ is seeking to 
collect interdisciplinary perspectives on the intersections of violent 
extremism, cultural dynamics of history, space and politics, and power 
and legitimacy. As guest editors, we hope to challenge taken for granted 
definitions of violence extremism and extremist violence, the gendered 
characteristics of those who commit it, as well as how gender is 
discursively, politically and strategically, used to construct, 
understand, and diffuse extremist violence in different contexts.

Though scholars in policing, criminal justice and even in some social 
scientific studies claim that most of what is considered extremist 
attacks are perpetrated by men, and explanations of the violence tend to 
posit it as an aberration that is intrinsically linked to dominant 
expressions of masculinity ( Kalish and Kimmel 2010), these leave many 
of the current cases unanswered. In the aftermath of 9/11, violent 
extremism was mainly associated with ideological factors that attract 
men and women to join Islamist groups, and thus positioned these men and 
women as culturally alienated, and simplified in the dichotomy of global 
conflicts (for example, Bakker 2006, Sageman 2008, van den Bos 2020).  
Such alienation suggests that violent extremism is morally 
reprehensible, and relegates it to other people, despite the ubiquity of 
violence globally. Elsewhere, scholars note different motivations for 
violence such as relative deprivation, political corruption, and 
competition over natural resources Banunle and Apau 2019, and Khan, Khan 
and Ahmed, 2022). Studies on violent extremism in Kenya for instance 
note that although most violent extremists are men, idealized 
masculinity does not appear to be significant motivators (Allen et. al., 
2015). Research in Malaysia challenges the discursive framing of Muslim 
women as “jihadi brides,” and points to the complexity of recruitment of 
women into terrorism and examining human trafficking and grooming of 
young women ( Abdul Hamid 2024).

The divergent perspectives present a challenge to understanding what is 
called violent extremism, who perpetrates it, and under what conditions, 
as well as the social and cultural context in which the violence and 
knowledge about violence are embedded.

The issue seeks to explore unpresented ways in which gender is (or 
should be) used as an analytical lens to explain extremist violence and 
trouble the normative theoretical frameworks of violent extremism. We 
are seeking contributions exploring the scope and intersection of 
race/ethnic identity, gender, class and geopolitics to understand what 
is contextually considered extremist and to how such understandings are 
discursively hegemonic.

We welcome submissions that delve into gender and violent extremism 
through Indigenous, global South, and queer theoretical lenses. 
Additionally, we invite submissions that employ qualitative research 
methods, including opensource data analysis, digital methodologies, 
interviews, and ethnographic studies. Interdisciplinary contributions 
from the social sciences and humanities are highly encouraged, and 
scholars specializing in anthropology, sociology, geography, and 
criminology are particularly invited to submit their work.

*Submission timeline**:*

Abstract submissions: May 30, 2024

June 15, 2024 Abstracts accepted, and authors notified

Aug 25, 2024 Full articles submitted for peer review

September, 2024 Authors notified of review outcome

November 2024 Final article submission – for proofs

Abstracts should be between 300-500 words, excluding references (which 
should be provided in Harvard format). All abstracts require 
accompanying author biographies of 100 words. Both must be sent in Word 
or PDF format to Sara Salman, 
(sara.salman /at/ vuw.ac.nz)<mailto:(sara.salman /at/ vuw.ac.nz)>.

Authors of accepted abstracts shall submit the full draft paper (word 
count around 6000-8000 words) by 25 Aug, 2024. All articles will be 
double blind peer reviewed. There are no fees payable for publication.

If you have any further questions please email Sara Salman, 
(sara.salman /at/ vuw.ac.nz)<mailto:(sara.salman /at/ vuw.ac.nz)>.

Guest editors:

Sara Salman, PhD (She/Her)
Senior Lecturer in Criminology
Institute of Criminology | Te Pou Haratūtanga
Victoria University of Wellington | Te Herenga Waka
New Zealand | Aotearoa

Dr Veronika Nagy, PhD
Assistant Professor in Criminology
Utrecht University
The Netherlands

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