Gender and Radicalisation

Thinking Allowed

BBC

Science, Society & Culture

4.4 • 973 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Is misogyny implicated in radicalisation, across the political spectrum?

Laurie Taylor talks to Elizabeth Pearson, Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Royal Holloway, University of London about her primary research among two of Britain’s key extremist movements: the banned Islamist group al-Muhajiroun, and those networked to it; and the anti-Islam radical right, including the English Defence League, For Britain and Britain First. Also, Katherine Williams, a former post-doctoral student in Politics and International Relations at Cardiff University, explores women's engagement with the far right and queries the notion that women do not support such politics, given the contemporary resurgence and global electoral successes of the far right, in its many guises.

Producer: Jayne Egerton

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0:51.3	Hello, it was round about this time of year when as a junior sociology lecturer I'd
0:57.1	start to wonder how to conduct my first seminar with a group of new
1:01.3	undergraduates how How might I, well, introduce the key
1:05.2	element of the subject and simultaneously stir up some animated conversation?
1:10.0	Well the simplest answer I found was to ask about the extent to which my students regarded themselves as normal,
1:17.5	as properly representative of their gender and class and religion. And I like to get things going by quoting Irving Goffman's example of perfect American masculinity.
1:29.0	Quote, a young, white urban northern heterosexual
1:34.6	Protestant father of college education fully employed
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