NGM Circle Resource Recap: Masculinity & Radicalization

From the NGM Circle on masculinity and radicalization on August 19, 2021.

Huge thanks to NGM volunteers Niall, Blake, Mark N, and Mike M for putting on a fantastic Circle and for finding the majority of these resources! Thanks as well to everyone who attended and contributed resources as well—we have tried to appropriately credit you all throughout. :)

By Veronika Ilich

Trainings

• Bystander Intervention Training (see Hollaback’s training schedule here)

Organizations

• Higher Unlearning (cheers, Jeff!)

• The Organization for the Prevention of Violence

• Life After Hate

• CPN-PREV

• Centre for the Prevention of Radicalization Leading to Violence

• Shift: The Project to End Domestic Violence (leaders in researching how to best engage men and boys in gender-based violence prevention)

• A Call to Men (US-based organization working to engage men and boys in GBV prevention)

Videos

• The Adorkable Misogyny of The Big Bang Theory (thanks Ryan!)

• Innuendo Studios (excellent series of videos that talk about far right extremism)

• ContraPoints' video on incels (terrific and also very funny, though NSFW)

• Folding Ideas (he’s Calgarian, has a great video about Flat Earth that goes into radicalization as well—kudos to Grayson for these last three suggestions!)

• How PragerU Lies to You

• Charlottesville: The True Alt Right

• White Right: Meeting the Enemy (by Deeyah Khan)

• JIHAD (the Bafta-nominated film by Deeyah Khan)

Books

• Angry White Men by Michael Kimmel

• Masculinities by RW Connell

• Gender, Religion, Extremism : Finding Women in Anti-Radicalization by Katherine Brown

• Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When the Stakes Are High by Kerry Patterson (thanks Mike!)

Podcasts

• Rabbit Hole

News & Blog Articles

• Toxic Masculinity and Lone Wolf Radicalization (CARR)

• Masculinity And U.S. Extremism: What Makes Young Men Vulnerable To Toxic Ideologies (NPR)

• Boys to men: the violent teenagers of the radical right (Open Democracy)

• Threat of ‘incel’ terrorism continues to grow, attract younger followers: experts (Global News)

• Canada’s online ecosystem of hate is thriving (The Globe and Mail)

• How YouTubers are deradicalizing members of the alt-right (CBC)

• ‘Incel’ violence is a form of extremism. It’s time we treated it as a security threat (The Conversation)

• The misogynist incel movement is spreading. Should it be classified as a terror threat? (The Guardian)

• Gender and Right-Wing Extremism in America: Why Understanding Women’s Roles is Key to Preventing Future Acts of  Domestic Terrorism (Just Security)

Publications

• Incels: Background for Practitioners (OPV)

• Second Systematic Review: Prevention (CPN-PREV)

• Building awareness, seeking solutions: extremism and hate motivated violence in Alberta (OPV)

• An Online Environmental Scan of Right-wing Extremism in Canada (ISD)

• Incels: A Guide to Symbols and Terminology (Moonshot CVE)

• Youth and Violent Extremism on Social Media (UNESCO)

Academic Research

(Some of these are paywalled, sorry to anyone who is not a student with university access!)

• Rape-Related Mourning on a Social Media Networking Site: Leah Parsons’ “Facebooked” Grief and the Angel Rehteah Parsons Page (Little, 2019)

• Assessing the Threat of Incel Violence (Hoffman et al., 2020)

• The Self-Radicalization of White Men: “Fake News” and the Affective Networking of Paranoia (Johnson, 2018)

• Extremism and Toxic Masculinity: The Man Question Re-Posed (Pearson, 2019)

• Sympathy for Violent Radicalization Among College Students in Quebec (Canada): The Protective Role of a Positive Future Orientation (Miconi et al., 2020)

• Masculinity Threat, ‘Incel’ Traits, and Violent Fantasies Among Heterosexual Men in the United States (Scaptura & Boyle, 2020)

• ‘If I Cannot Have It, I Will Do Everything I Can to Destroy It.’ The Canonization of Elliot Rodger: ‘Incel’ Masculinities, Secular Sainthood, and Justifications of Ideological Violence (Witt, 2020)

• The role of domestic violence in fatal mass shootings in the United States, 2014–2019 (Geller et al., 2021)

• Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing: Assessing the Effect of Gender Norms on the Lethality of Female Suicide Terrorism (Thomas, 2021)

Social Media Threads

• “I’m a Parkland Survivor, but my QAnon father believes it’s a hoax”

• A Birmingham author is one of three men behind Game Global—a network of pick-up “artists” who co-ordinate attempts to get women into bed

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