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Discussions of self-styled Islamist armed groups, such as the Islamic State, tend to heavily focus on gender and religion. Yet these elements are almost always never considered in analyses of white supremacist groups. What accounts for this difference and why does it matter? In this episode of \u201cTransnational Trends in Citizenship\u201d\u2014the new season of\xa0Order from Ashes\u2014we speak with scholar Amanda Rogers about overlooked aspects of militias and nonstate armed groups in transnational perspective.\nCommon frameworks that emphasize violence do not have the tools to fully understand how these ideological movements function. Important elements that tend to be overlooked in such approaches include gender and religion.\xa0\xa0\nRogers identifies other gaps in discussions of armed groups: Even though analyses of Islamist groups incldue gender, they usually treat women as peripheral. And wildly different groups\u2014Hezbollah, the Islamic State, al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and Hamas\u2014are treated as the same analytical unit simply because of their supposed connection to Islam. When it comes to white supremacist groups, however, religion is barely considered at all, even thought many o have an explicit religious ideology.\xa0\nThis podcast is part of \u201cTransnational Trends in Citizenship: Authoritarianism and the Emerging Global Culture of Resistance,\u201d a TCF project supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Open Society Foundations.Participants include:\nNaira Antoun, director, Transnational Trends in Citizenship, Century International\nAmanda Rogers, fellow, Century International