The incel community has been associated with terrorist attacks and misogynistic violence. But logically, just as not all violent terrorists are incels, not all incels are violent terrorists and uncritical condemnation is neither scientific nor constructive. Allysa Czerwinsky joins us for an open and objective discussion of the incel community and research into that community so that we can better understand this group. Dr Nicolas Vermeys answers another of my silly questions about the regulations around the storage of data and whether companies as victims of data breaches can also be held responsible for the loss of their client’s data.
About our guests:
Allysa Czerwinsky
https://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/criminology/research/postgraduate-research/phd-students/
Prof Nicolas Vermeys
Papers or resources mentioned in this episode:
Julia R. DeCook & Megan Kelly (2022) Interrogating the “incel menace”: assessing the threat of male supremacy in terrorism studies, Critical Studies on Terrorism, 15:3, 706-726, DOI: 10.1080/17539153.2021.2005099
Kelly, M., DiBranco, A., & DeCook, J. R. (2022). Misogynist incels and male supremacist violence. In Male supremacism in the United States (pp. 164-180). Routledge.
DeCook, Julia (19 March, 2021) The Issue Isn’t Incels. It’s Racist Misogyny, Global Network on Extremism & Technology**,** https://gnet-research.org/2021/03/19/the-issue-isnt-incels-its-racist-misogyny/
Other:
Research by Tim Squirrell et al
https://www.isdglobal.org/isd-publications/?fwp_publication_category=hate-and-polarisation
News articles regarding the Toronto Van attack:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvx4kq/incel-toronto-van-killer-found-guilty-of-murdering-10-people
The interview with Allysa was created as part of the secrev.org conference.
This episode was edited in part using text first audio edition that uses machine learning. It's not bad but I think there are some improvements.