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  • Women and Political Violence

    Female Combatants in Ethno-National Conflict

    by Miranda Alison ...
    Series series Contemporary Security Studies
    This book directly challenges the stereotype that women are inherently peaceable by examining female combatants’ involvement in ethno-national conflicts.Drawing upon empirical case studies of Sri Lanka and Northern Ireland, this study explores the ways in which women have traditionally been depicted. Whereas women have predominantly been seen as victims of conflict, this book acknowledges the ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Women, Gender, and Terrorism

    by Laura Sjoberg, Caron E. Gentry, Alisa Stack, Farhana Qazi, Grace Cooke, Jennie Stone, Katherine Brown, Katherine Patillo, Miranda Alison0, Stacy Reiter Neal1, Swati Parashar2 ...
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    In the last decade the world has witnessed a rise in women’s participation in terrorism. Women, Gender, and Terrorism explores women’s relationship with terrorism, with a keen eye on the political, gender, racial, and cultural dynamics of the contemporary world.Throughout most of the twentieth century, it was rare to hear about women terrorists. In the new millennium, however, women have ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

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  • Dying to Win

    The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism

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    Suicide terrorism is rising around the world, but there is great confusion as to why. In this paradigm-shifting analysis, University of Chicago political scientist Robert Pape has collected groundbreaking evidence to explain the strategic, social, and individual factors responsible for this growing threat.One of the world’s foremost authorities on the subject, Professor Pape has created the first ... Read more

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  • The Making of a Human Bomb

    An Ethnography of Palestinian Resistance

    by Nasser Abufarha, Neil L. Whitehead, Jo Ellen Fair, Leigh A. Payne ...
    Series series The Cultures and Practice of Violence
    In The Making of a Human Bomb, Nasser Abufarha, a Palestinian anthropologist, explains the cultural logic underlying Palestinian martyrdom operations (suicide attacks) launched against Israel during the Al-Aqsa Intifada (2000–06). In so doing, he sheds much-needed light on how Palestinians have experienced and perceived the broader conflict. During the Intifada, many of the martyrdom operations ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Islam and Anarchism

    Relationships and Resonances

    by Mohamed Abdou ...
    'One of the fiercest books I've ever read' - Jasbir K. PuarDiscourse around Muslims and Islam all too often lapses into a false dichotomy of Orientalist and fundamentalist tropes. A popular reimagining of Islam is urgently needed. Yet it is a perhaps unexpected political philosophical tradition that has the most to offer in this pursuit: anarchism.Islam and Anarchism is a highly original and ... Read more

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  • Living Out Islam

    Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims

    by Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle ...
    "An excellent contribution to the emerging literature on LBGTQ Muslims . . . facing both homophobia and Islamophobia." —Amina Wadud, Starr King School for the Ministry2015 Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Award presented by the Stonewall Books Awards of the American Library AssociationMuhsin is one of the organizers of Al-Fitra Foundation, a South African support group for lesbian, transgender, and gay ... Read more

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  • Globalization and Islamism

    Beyond Fundamentalism

    by Nevzat Soguk ...
    Series series Globalization
    Tensions between the West and the Islamic world have reached an all-time high, fueled by caricatures and misunderstandings on both sides. In contrast, as Nevzat Soguk shows, actual histories reveal profound connections across Islamic and Western civilizations. Moving beyond the usual focus on Wahhabi fundamentalism, Soguk highlights the often-overlooked non-Arab forms of Islam in Turkey and in ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • The Relevance of Islamic Identity in Canada

    Culture, Politics, and Self

    by Nurjehan Aziz ...
    This volume examines, from diverse perspectives, what it means to be a Muslim in Canada. Is it a public or a private identity, and as an identity is it compatible with a secular democracy such as Canada? What relation does it bear to historical, cultural, and ethnic identities? Is a total agnostic or an atheist a Muslim? Is a person who disavows being a Muslim still a Muslim? How do Muslims cope ... Read more

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  • Decolonizing Palestine

    Hamas between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial

    by Somdeep Sen ...
    In Decolonizing Palestine**, Somdeep Sen rejects the notion that liberation from colonialization exists as a singular moment in history when the colonizer is ousted by the colonized.** Instead, he considers the case of the Palestinian struggle for liberation from its settler colonial condition as a complex psychological and empirical mix of the colonial and the postcolonial. Specifically, he ... Read more

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  • Islamophobia

    The Challenge of Pluralism in the 21st Century

    Edited by John L. Esposito, Ibrahim Kalin ...
    Islamophobia has been on the rise since September 11, as seen in countless cases of discrimination, racism, hate speeches, physical attacks, and anti-Muslim campaigns. The 2006 Danish cartoon crisis and the controversy surrounding Pope Benedict XVI's Regensburg speech have underscored the urgency of such issues as image-making, multiculturalism, freedom of expression, respect for religious symbols ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Women in Modern Terrorism

    From Liberation Wars to Global Jihad and the Islamic State

    by Jessica Davis ...
    Recent events, including the rise of the Islamic State and its overt recruitment of Western women, have once again brought the issue of women participating in terrorist organizations to the forefront. Yet much remains to be understood about why women join terrorist organizations and why groups choose to incorporate them into their structures and operations. Women in Modern Terrorism, which draws ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • The Islamic Veil

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Elizabeth M. Bucar ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    Banned in public institutions in France and Turkey, mandatory in Saudi Arabia and Iran, no other item of clothing incites such furious reactions. The Islamic veil – a catch-all term that encompasses everything from a simple headscarf to the all-covering burqa – has, over the past decade, become a heated battleground for debates on everything from women’s rights to multiculturalism.Elizabeth Bucar ... Read more

    $5.99 USD