Abducting Modernity: Boko Haram, Gender Violence and the Marketplace of Bigotry

The abduction in April 2014 of hundreds of Nigerian of schoolgirls by the extremist movement Boko Haram has raised many deep questions about the nature of this decade old insurgency and international reactions to it. This paper asks to what extent the resort by this movement to gender violence repre...

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Authors: El-Affendi, Abdelwahab (Author) ; Gumel, Salisu (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2015
In: Hawwa
Year: 2015, Volume: 13, Issue: 2, Pages: 127-140
Further subjects:B Gender Violence imperialism narratives of insecurity terrorism Nigeria Boko Haram
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