May 3rd Tuesday 10.15 -12 hrs room 219

Powerpoint: Gender and security 2.pptx

This lecture will continue to explore gender and security by zooming in on feminist scholarship on militarism and militarisation. We will focus on feminist arguments about how militarisation is a practice normalising war in the everyday.

Readings

Åhäll, L. (2016) ‘The Dance of Militarisation: A feminist security studies take on the political’, Critical Studies on Security, 4(2): 154-168.

Åhäll, L. (2019) 'Feeling Everyday IR: Embodied, affective, militarising movement as choreography of war', Cooperation & Conflict 54(2): 149-166.

Further readings:

Basham, Victoria (2016) 'Gender and militaries: the importance of military masculinities for the conduct of state sanctioned violence'. In Handbook on Gender and War, Sharoni, Welland, Steiner & Pedersen eds. Edgar Elgar Publications.pp 29-46.

Dyvik SL. ‘Valhalla rising’: Gender, embodiment and experience in military memoirs. Security Dialogue. 2016;47(2):133-150. doi:10.1177/0967010615615730 (Links to an external site.)

Eichler, Maya (2018) 'Gendered militarism'. In Routledge Handbook of Gender and Security, Gentry, Sjoberg & Shepherd eds. pp: 160-170.

Enloe, Cynthia (2007) Globalization & Militarism: Feminists make the link. Rowman & Littlefield.