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Abstract
This article examines for the first time the jihadist global hegemonic masculinity of Osama bin Laden. Based on Bin Laden’s public statements translated into English, the authors examine how in the process of constructing a rationale for violent attacks primarily against the United States, he simultaneously and discursively formulates a jihadist global hegemonic masculinity. The research adds to the growing interest in discursive global hegemonic masculinities, as well as jihadist masculinities in the Middle East, by scrutinizing how Bin Laden’s jihadist global hegemonic masculinity is produced in and through his public statements. The authors close their discussion by demonstrating how Bin Laden’s discursive practices are embedded in a clash of competing global hegemonic masculinities on the world stage.
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James W. Messerschmidt is professor of sociology and chair of the criminology department at the University of Southern Maine, USA. His research has covered such diverse areas as masculinities theory, gender and youth violence, genderqueers, intersectionality, and global political masculinities. He is the author of a number of books, most recently Hegemonic Masculinity: Formulation, Reformulation, and Amplification.
Achim Rohde is a Middle East historian and research coordinator at the Academy for Islam in Science and Society at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany. His research focuses on gender, sexuality, and social and political change in the contemporary Middle East and North Africa. He recently co-edited National Politics and Sexuality in Transregional Perspective: The Homophobic Argument.
