Caron E Gentry
Biographic Data
| ID | 314666 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Caron E Gentry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Caron E |
| FAMILY NAME | Gentry |
| SIGNATURE | GENTRY C E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St Andrews |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2035-8424 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Scottish Government’s Feminist Approach to International Relations. Is It Feminist? Is It Fair
In 2023 the Scottish Government (SG) released its position paper Feminist Approach to International Relations (FAIR). While the SG initially used the label feminist foreign policy (FFP) that label has shifted in favour of an approach that better reflects Scotland’s constitutional status. This article has two research aims. First, it aims to assess the extent to which FAIR could contribute to a “fairer, greener” and gender-just world? And, second,…
Misogynistic terrorism
Anti-semitism, racism, pro-life beliefs, and extreme Christian ideology have long been acknowledged to be a feature in far-right terrorist violence in the United States. However, what has been less acknowledged is the underpinning element of misogyny. This paper aims to reflect on why this is. First, it looks at the chronological trajectory of “common-couple violence” to “patriarchal terrorism” to “misogynistic terrorism.” Even though scholarship…
Disordered Violence
A feminist interrogation of how terrorism is constructed as a violence that upsets the order of international politics Strongly critiques ‘radicalisation’ by looking at UK Prevent and Prevent Tragedies Conducts 8 profiles of various terrorist actors, including Andreas Baader, Bernardine Dohrn, Leila Khaled, Dhanu, Anders Breivik, Nidal Hasan and Aafia Siddiqui Discusses the mass shooters Elliot Rodger, Dylann Roof and Anders Breivik in relation t…
Disordered Violence
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. Dr…
The politics of hope
Situated within feminist Christian Realism, this article looks at what political theology is and its relevance to International Relations. Hope is a central theme to political theology, underpinning the necessity to be witness to and to work against oppressive structures. Simply put, hope is the desire to make life better. For Christians, this hope stems from a belief in resurrection of Christ and the faith that such redemption is offered to all …
This American Moment
This American Moment focuses on the concept of anxiety politics by arguing that America is in crisis. Those who uphold or participate in racist and misogynist politics are threatened by changes to the status quo, such as the economic gains made by women and therefore respond with reactivity and defensiveness. This book examines first, the Black Lives Matter campaign as the latest disruption of the raced structures that define America and the anxi…
Creatively Engaging the Political
This chapter establishes feminist Christian realism in IR as focused upon addressing power structures and articulating a rigorous creative response to anxiety. A creative response to injustice recognizes not just the ability of love to operate in political contexts but the absolute need for it to do so. Creativity has been reduced to an egotistical proposition, glorifying human ingenuity and genius. It tends to focus on the people who are well re…
Love in Political Times
This chapter delineates the continued relevance and necessity of Christian realism in political and international theology. Of particular importance is how Christian realism understands the fallible nature of human beings, their propensity to seek power, and how justice serves to contain (human) power. The chapter, however, will also explore in depth the two pivotal moments within Niebuhr’s own theology that has prevented Christian realism from b…
We Need to Talk About Fascism
This chapter highlights how the racist and misogynist anxiety politics outlined previously allowed for a fascist movement to find a foothold inside the US presidency. Relying upon previous work on what fascism is, however tenuously defined, and the steps fascist movements often follow as they take power, the chapter compares this literature with the rise of “alt-right” politics and its relationship with Donald Trump. It clearly identifies how the…
The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Security
Why Women Rebel
Why Women Rebel: Understanding Women’s Participation in Armed Rebel Groups." International Feminist Journal of Politics, 21(3), pp. 520–521
Routledge Handbook of Gender and Security
This American Moment
Anxiety politics
The ‘Duel’ Meaning of Feminisation in International Relations
‘Feminisation’ in International Relations refers to multiple, and sometimes contradictory, concepts. Much of the time it refers to the incorporation of women into various organisations and institutions, such as women’s participation in militaries or in politics. The decline of violence, or declinist, literature lists it as one of the contributing factors in the decline of violence and associates feminisation with women’s social, political, and ec…
The Mysterious Case of Aafia Siddiqui
When Aafia Siddiqui ‘disappeared’ from her upper-middle class life in Boston in 2003 due to accusations that she was involved in al Qaeda, competing narratives from the US government, media, and her family emerged striving to convince the American public of her guilt or innocence. These narratives were rooted in a gendered form of neo-Orientalism that informed and structured the War on Terror. The narratives, of innocent Soccer Mom, nefarious Lad…
Beyond Mothers, Monsters, Whores
Beyond Mothers, Monsters, Whores takes the suggestion in Mothers, Monsters, Whores that it is important to see genderings in characterizations of violent women, and to use critique of those genderings to retheorize individual violence in global politics. It begins by demonstrating the interdependence of the personal and international levels of global politics in violent women's lives, but then shows that this interdependence is inaccurately depic…
Epistemological failures
This article attempts to problematise the disparate levels of attention paid to similar violences globally, whereby violence against women in the developing world is seen as a security concern to the West, and yet violence against women in the West is minimised or ignored. It will do this, first, by demonstrating that everyday violences, better known as everyday terrorism, in the West are subjugated knowledges within Terrorism Studies. To demonst…
Introduction
Since the inception of feminist work in International Relations (IR), feminist scholars have been urging IR scholars to pay attention to the margins of global politics (Brown 1988; Tickner 1992). T
Feminist Christian Realism
While Christianity and feminism may seem at odds with one another, both make normative claims about justice and addressing the needs of those on the margins of power. This article explores what feminism contributes to Christian realism. The current revival of Niebuhrian Christian realism highlights how much it still has to offer as a theoretical underpinning for policy and governance. However, Christian realism remains wedded to masculinist abstr…
Anxiety and the creation of the scapegoated other
This article examines how anxiety saturates the neo-Orientalist-driven thesis of new terrorism, especially how both anxiety and new terrorism are related to the unknown. Of particular importance is the description of al Qaeda as an amorphous and thus unknowable threat by Western academics and the media, which reifies the discursive neo-Orientalist binary of the West versus Islam. Scholars of international relations are increasingly engaging with …
Valerie M. Hudson, Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill, Mary Caprioli and Chad F. Emmett. Sex and World Peace
Reduced to Bad Sex
Whenever stories of women's violence in global politics are presented in mainstream media, their authors explain away the possibility that women make a conscious choice to kill or injure. Violent women interrupt gender stereotypes: they are not the helpless and peaceful women that soldiers need to protect from enemies in traditional war tales. Instead of acknowledging the falseness of the underlying gender assumptions, public and publicized stori…
Thinking about Women, Violence, and Agency
To woefully use a cliche: ‘We've come a long way baby.’ Twelve years ago what literature existed on women's involvement in political and criminal violences denied or seriously limited agency, (rela
Mia Bloom. Bombshell
Twisted Maternalism
Much of the recent work on Palestinian female suicide bombers (shahidas) explains their violence in domestic and maternal language. These descriptions read shockingly similar to the maternalist position. Maternalism typically equates women's participation in the political arena with peace and non-violence, and is criticized for essentializing women's role. The application of a ‘twisted’ maternalism to women's political violence also appears to be…
Reduced to Bad Sex
Whenever stories of women's violence in global politics are presented in mainstream media, their authors explain away the possibility that women make a conscious choice to kill or injure. Violent women interrupt gender stereotypes: they are not the helpless and peaceful women that soldiers need to protect from enemies in traditional war tales. Instead of acknowledging the falseness of the underlying gender assumptions, public and publicized stori…
Introduction
Since the inception of feminist work in International Relations (IR), feminist scholars have been urging IR scholars to pay attention to the margins of global politics (Brown 1988; Tickner 1992). T
Misogynistic terrorism
Anti-semitism, racism, pro-life beliefs, and extreme Christian ideology have long been acknowledged to be a feature in far-right terrorist violence in the United States. However, what has been less acknowledged is the underpinning element of misogyny. This paper aims to reflect on why this is. First, it looks at the chronological trajectory of “common-couple violence” to “patriarchal terrorism” to “misogynistic terrorism.” Even though scholarship…
Why Women Rebel
Why Women Rebel: Understanding Women’s Participation in Armed Rebel Groups." International Feminist Journal of Politics, 21(3), pp. 520–521
Epistemological failures
This article attempts to problematise the disparate levels of attention paid to similar violences globally, whereby violence against women in the developing world is seen as a security concern to the West, and yet violence against women in the West is minimised or ignored. It will do this, first, by demonstrating that everyday violences, better known as everyday terrorism, in the West are subjugated knowledges within Terrorism Studies. To demonst…
Anxiety and the creation of the scapegoated other
This article examines how anxiety saturates the neo-Orientalist-driven thesis of new terrorism, especially how both anxiety and new terrorism are related to the unknown. Of particular importance is the description of al Qaeda as an amorphous and thus unknowable threat by Western academics and the media, which reifies the discursive neo-Orientalist binary of the West versus Islam. Scholars of international relations are increasingly engaging with …
Thinking about Women, Violence, and Agency
To woefully use a cliche: ‘We've come a long way baby.’ Twelve years ago what literature existed on women's involvement in political and criminal violences denied or seriously limited agency, (rela
The discourse of desperation
Neo-Orientalism is a means of articulating a subordinating discourse regarding populations and societies associated with Islam. This article argues that the labelling of Chechens and Chechen society as ‘desperate’ is another way of upholding the neo-Orientalist frame. About 2876 articles on the Chechen conflict culled from the Lexis-Nexis database were coded for the language of ‘desperation’. A majority of these articles linked desperation to eit…
Feminist Christian Realism
While Christianity and feminism may seem at odds with one another, both make normative claims about justice and addressing the needs of those on the margins of power. This article explores what feminism contributes to Christian realism. The current revival of Niebuhrian Christian realism highlights how much it still has to offer as a theoretical underpinning for policy and governance. However, Christian realism remains wedded to masculinist abstr…
Anxiety politics
The Mysterious Case of Aafia Siddiqui
When Aafia Siddiqui ‘disappeared’ from her upper-middle class life in Boston in 2003 due to accusations that she was involved in al Qaeda, competing narratives from the US government, media, and her family emerged striving to convince the American public of her guilt or innocence. These narratives were rooted in a gendered form of neo-Orientalism that informed and structured the War on Terror. The narratives, of innocent Soccer Mom, nefarious Lad…
Mia Bloom. Bombshell
The Relationship Between New Social Movement Theory and Terrorism Studies
This article demonstrates the relationship between new social movement theory and terrorism studies. The revolutionary dimension of new social movements can be correlated to terrorist groups. This article also uses new social movement theory to develop a fuller understanding of the leadership, membership, personal ideology and gender within a new social movement; these then can be used to follow the development of a politically violent group. Thi…
The Relationship Between New Social Movement Theory and Terrorism Studies
This article demonstrates the relationship between new social movement theory and terrorism studies. The revolutionary dimension of new social movements can be correlated to terrorist groups. This article also uses new social movement theory to develop a fuller understanding of the leadership, membership, personal ideology and gender within a new social movement; these then can be used to follow the development of a politically violent group. Thi…
Mothers, Monsters, Whores
Twisted Maternalism
Much of the recent work on Palestinian female suicide bombers (shahidas) explains their violence in domestic and maternal language. These descriptions read shockingly similar to the maternalist position. Maternalism typically equates women's participation in the political arena with peace and non-violence, and is criticized for essentializing women's role. The application of a ‘twisted’ maternalism to women's political violence also appears to be…
Women, Gender, and Terrorism
Women, Gender, and Terrorism
The discourse of desperation
Neo-Orientalism is a means of articulating a subordinating discourse regarding populations and societies associated with Islam. This article argues that the labelling of Chechens and Chechen society as ‘desperate’ is another way of upholding the neo-Orientalist frame. About 2876 articles on the Chechen conflict culled from the Lexis-Nexis database were coded for the language of ‘desperation’. A majority of these articles linked desperation to eit…
Thinking about Women, Violence, and Agency
To woefully use a cliche: ‘We've come a long way baby.’ Twelve years ago what literature existed on women's involvement in political and criminal violences denied or seriously limited agency, (rela
Mia Bloom. Bombshell
Valerie M. Hudson, Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill, Mary Caprioli and Chad F. Emmett. Sex and World Peace
Reduced to Bad Sex
Whenever stories of women's violence in global politics are presented in mainstream media, their authors explain away the possibility that women make a conscious choice to kill or injure. Violent women interrupt gender stereotypes: they are not the helpless and peaceful women that soldiers need to protect from enemies in traditional war tales. Instead of acknowledging the falseness of the underlying gender assumptions, public and publicized stori…
Beyond Mothers, Monsters, Whores
Beyond Mothers, Monsters, Whores takes the suggestion in Mothers, Monsters, Whores that it is important to see genderings in characterizations of violent women, and to use critique of those genderings to retheorize individual violence in global politics. It begins by demonstrating the interdependence of the personal and international levels of global politics in violent women's lives, but then shows that this interdependence is inaccurately depic…
Epistemological failures
This article attempts to problematise the disparate levels of attention paid to similar violences globally, whereby violence against women in the developing world is seen as a security concern to the West, and yet violence against women in the West is minimised or ignored. It will do this, first, by demonstrating that everyday violences, better known as everyday terrorism, in the West are subjugated knowledges within Terrorism Studies. To demonst…
Introduction
Since the inception of feminist work in International Relations (IR), feminist scholars have been urging IR scholars to pay attention to the margins of global politics (Brown 1988; Tickner 1992). T
Feminist Christian Realism
While Christianity and feminism may seem at odds with one another, both make normative claims about justice and addressing the needs of those on the margins of power. This article explores what feminism contributes to Christian realism. The current revival of Niebuhrian Christian realism highlights how much it still has to offer as a theoretical underpinning for policy and governance. However, Christian realism remains wedded to masculinist abstr…
Anxiety and the creation of the scapegoated other
This article examines how anxiety saturates the neo-Orientalist-driven thesis of new terrorism, especially how both anxiety and new terrorism are related to the unknown. Of particular importance is the description of al Qaeda as an amorphous and thus unknowable threat by Western academics and the media, which reifies the discursive neo-Orientalist binary of the West versus Islam. Scholars of international relations are increasingly engaging with …
The ‘Duel’ Meaning of Feminisation in International Relations
‘Feminisation’ in International Relations refers to multiple, and sometimes contradictory, concepts. Much of the time it refers to the incorporation of women into various organisations and institutions, such as women’s participation in militaries or in politics. The decline of violence, or declinist, literature lists it as one of the contributing factors in the decline of violence and associates feminisation with women’s social, political, and ec…
The Mysterious Case of Aafia Siddiqui
When Aafia Siddiqui ‘disappeared’ from her upper-middle class life in Boston in 2003 due to accusations that she was involved in al Qaeda, competing narratives from the US government, media, and her family emerged striving to convince the American public of her guilt or innocence. These narratives were rooted in a gendered form of neo-Orientalism that informed and structured the War on Terror. The narratives, of innocent Soccer Mom, nefarious Lad…
Anxiety politics
This American Moment
This American Moment focuses on the concept of anxiety politics by arguing that America is in crisis. Those who uphold or participate in racist and misogynist politics are threatened by changes to the status quo, such as the economic gains made by women and therefore respond with reactivity and defensiveness. This book examines first, the Black Lives Matter campaign as the latest disruption of the raced structures that define America and the anxi…
Creatively Engaging the Political
This chapter establishes feminist Christian realism in IR as focused upon addressing power structures and articulating a rigorous creative response to anxiety. A creative response to injustice recognizes not just the ability of love to operate in political contexts but the absolute need for it to do so. Creativity has been reduced to an egotistical proposition, glorifying human ingenuity and genius. It tends to focus on the people who are well re…
Love in Political Times
This chapter delineates the continued relevance and necessity of Christian realism in political and international theology. Of particular importance is how Christian realism understands the fallible nature of human beings, their propensity to seek power, and how justice serves to contain (human) power. The chapter, however, will also explore in depth the two pivotal moments within Niebuhr’s own theology that has prevented Christian realism from b…
We Need to Talk About Fascism
This chapter highlights how the racist and misogynist anxiety politics outlined previously allowed for a fascist movement to find a foothold inside the US presidency. Relying upon previous work on what fascism is, however tenuously defined, and the steps fascist movements often follow as they take power, the chapter compares this literature with the rise of “alt-right” politics and its relationship with Donald Trump. It clearly identifies how the…
The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Security
Why Women Rebel
Why Women Rebel: Understanding Women’s Participation in Armed Rebel Groups." International Feminist Journal of Politics, 21(3), pp. 520–521
Routledge Handbook of Gender and Security
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