An Involuntarily Celibate Community: Research to understand incels

About our guests:

Allysa Czerwinsky

https://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/criminology/research/postgraduate-research/phd-students/

Prof Nicolas Vermeys

https://www.vermeys.com

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.cp24.com/news/victims-families-dignitaries-mark-fifth-anniversary-of-deadly-toronto-van-attack-1.6367465

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.