“Nimmi Gowrinathan has a political imagination like no other. It is playful, yet profound; it is compelling, yet unimposing; it is unafraid of complexity, yet always pushing us toward clarity.”
- Valeria Luiselli, author of Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions
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Interview with Layleh Saleh
A “protest turn” is upon us. The Arab Spring uprisings, Occupy Wall Street, anti-immigrant mobilization, and Black Lives Matter – all speak to this historical juncture. Against this backdrop, Protest inaugurates a forum for capturing this expanding global phenomenon of contentious politics. To this end, it invites contributors to interpret the evolving nature of power and power dynamics and relations across various terrains of protest. Protest is neither single nor fixed, and the journal champions the diversity of ontology, epistemology, and methodology of knowing protest, undertaking to reflect it in the “writing” of protest. This dimension is intended to elicit new openings for inquiring more widely and globally into the protest turn.
Political extremism is a twisted mirror of elite failure
Theory of Change With Matthew Sheffield
The increasing focus on researching radicalization, especially among women who become militants, is due to technology's role in spreading extremist views and violence. Nimmi Gowrinathan, the author of "Radicalizing Her," examines the motivations of women involved in militant groups, including those that restrict women's rights, and discusses the implications for society.
I argue that to understand the role of violence in politics, it must first be extracted from the moral imperative to condemn it. To condone or condemn it from the outside matters very little. Violence is simply reality in the lives of the women I have known."
I argue that to understand the role of violence in politics, it must first be extracted from the moral imperative to condemn it. To condone or condemn it from the outside matters very little. Violence is simply reality in the lives of the women I have known."
"If we understand that violence is a political act that disproportionately affects women, then we must be able to see that it will have a political impact."
"If we understand that violence is a political act that disproportionately affects women, then we must be able to see that it will have a political impact."
"If the gendered body remains contested territory, then consciousness if what we have to reclaim."
"If the gendered body remains contested territory, then consciousness if what we have to reclaim."
ISIS promotes female terror brigades
MSNBC
Dr. Nimmi Gowrinathan joins to discuss ISIS' strategy in raising awareness of all-female terrorist battalions.
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