Terrorist Transgressions
Gender and the Visual Culture of the Terrorist
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23509779 |
|---|---|
| Editors | Sue Malvern, Gabriel Koureas |
| Year | 2014 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Terrorist Transgressions (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | I.B.Tauris (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5040/9780755621491 |
| OpenAlex | W4254457537 |
| ISBN | 9780755621491 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
Terrorism has a variety of contexts, histories and forms which have all been the focus of intense scrutiny in recent years, whilst cultural representations of the terrorist have received much less attention, which is odd when we consider that terrorism by its very nature is spectacle. Dissident organisations create images of terrorists as martyrs, heroes or avengers and international counter terrorist agencies visualise them to provide the threat with a recognisable persona. Osama bin Laden for example was variously portrayed as effeminate and sexually depraved and pictures of his dead body were banned from publication by the United States government. Terrorist Transgressions examines images of the terrorist and discusses in what way they challenge societal norms, particularly those surrounding gender. Despite the traditional alliance between terrorism and masculinity, women have been active in terrorist organisations and through tactics such as suicide bombing have used their very bodies as weapons. Such
Criminology · Femininity · Government (linguistics) · Masculinity · Political science · Scrutiny · Sociology · Spectacle · Terrorism · Gender Studies · Law · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
| Citations per year | 0.56 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2017 - 2021 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |