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SUMMARY:Bad men\, good men\, and loving women: Gender Constructions in the
  UK’s Online Action Counters Terrorism (ACT) Campaign - Harmonie Toros\,
  University of Kent
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CONTACT:Kieron Ivy Turk
DESCRIPTION:The United Kingdom is widely considered a world leader in its 
 counterterrorism (CT)\, countering violent extremism (CVE) and preventing 
 violent extremism (PVE) campaigns. The Action Counters Terrorism Campaign 
 is a public-facing campaign of the UK government aimed at raising the gene
 ral public’s awareness of how it can support its CT/CVE/PVE efforts. A n
 arrative analysis of the campaign’s YouTube channel (2017-2020) reveals 
 a clear dominant narrative that “ordinary people” can assist in CT/CVE
 /PVE by being alert and following basic rules (such as Run\, Hide\, Tell).
  A gendered narrative analysis reveals far more surprising results: The te
 rrorist threat is understood as exclusively male and only men are viewed a
 s at risk of radicalization. Women are predominantly portrayed in relation
  to men in their lives (wives\, mothers). Through their love and care\, wo
 men can support efforts to save them by noticing when “something is wron
 g.” Offering an original methodological approach\, this article reveals 
 how the gendered constructions of the British awareness campaign are so en
 grained in powerful understandings of gender and political violence that t
 hey ignore even widespread public security debates\, such as those surroun
 ding British girls and women who traveled to Iraq/Syria to join DAESH.
LOCATION:Webinar & FW11\, Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Building.
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