Perspectives on Race, Gender and Power Differentials in Lived Experiences of Failed Suicide Bombers in Pakistan
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https://doi.org/10.52567/pjsr.v3i4.66Keywords:
Female suicide bombers, Suicide bombing, gender, race and ethnicity, terrorism, power.Abstract
The study describes the impact of social structures like gender, geography race and ethnicity with reference to the lived experiences of failed suicide bombers in Pakistan. How power relations in their interactional contexts entails in unquestioned submission to militant organizations. Besides ideological charged social settings and overwhelming existence of terrorist organisation, specific regions and ethnicities in Pakistan exhibit unusual proclivity to suicide terrorism. Militant outfits feminize suicide terrorism out of strategic and political expediency and women are enlisted in their ranks mostly through physical coercion emotional exploitation and patriarchal pressures.
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