Chapter 10. Wars, Wimps, and Women: Talking Gender and Thinking War

Cohn, Carol

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“…Research in these areas has insisted that emotions need to be taken seriously, as central aspects of social and cultural experience and as informing and informed by reason and rational thinking (e.g. Cohn, 1993), capacities which are said to be evoked by data and statistics. But to date, this insistence on understanding emotions sociologically has not been applied to the study of data and their visualisation.…”

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The Feeling of Numbers: Emotions in Everyday Engagements with Data and Their Visualisation

2017

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This paper highlights the role that emotions play in engagements with data and their visualisation. To date, the relationship between data and emotions has rarely been noted, in part because data studies have not attended to everyday engagements with data. We draw on an empirical study to show a wide range of emotional engagements with diverse aspects of data and their visualisation, and so demonstrate the importance of emotions as vital components of making sense of data. We nuance the argument that regimes of datafication, in which numbers, metrics and statistics dominate, are characterised by a renewed faith in objectivity and rationality, arguing that in datafied times, it is not only numbers but also the feeling of numbers that is important. We build on the sociology of a) emotions and b) the everyday to do this, and in so doing, we contribute to the development of a sociology of data. 2.

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The Feeling of Numbers: Emotions in Everyday Engagements with Data and Their Visualisation

2017

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“…This is the case, for instance, in feminist International Relations (IR) theory, which generally deploys insights from the 1970s to criticise masculine structures of international power (e.g. Cohn, 1993;Tickner, 1988;Enloe, 1990). The resultant critiques are powerful, but leave epistemological power in the hands of the theorist, albeit based on the results of earlier social movements.…”

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For a revival of feminist consciousness-raising: horizontal transformation of epistemologies and transgression of neoliberal TimeSpace

Firth

Robinson

2016

Gender and Education

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This paper looks back on the methodology and experience of feminist consciousness-raising (CR) in the 1970s, in relation to the current re-emergence of feminism. It constructs an argument that a new wave of CR is desirable so as to construct new forms of feminist pedagogy and activism. The paper will argue that contemporary feminism in the UK and US would benefit from this kind of methodology, through which a standpoint is constructed. The core of the paper is an analysis of how CR works as an affective and social process. Drawing on academic studies and participant accounts, the paper reconstructs the mechanisms through which participants' subjectivities and narratives are expressed and transformed. It suggests that these mechanisms express different non-homogeneous temporalities. The paper invites feminist pedagogy to get back to the base level of experience and unfold new theories and strategies to address the current context.

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“…Importantly, though, whilst hegemonic masculinity may be more aspirational than actual, many men will still gain from the circulation of hegemonic ideas about masculinity because it underpins male privilege (Farough, 2003; see also Connell, 1987). War and its technologies can confer a 'virile prestige' on those at the tail end of conflict situations as well as the rough and tough combat soldier (Kimmel, 2004, p. 274; see also Cohn, 1987Cohn, , 1993Enloe, 2004). All this points to the socially constructed and contingent nature of gender relations, to the notion that gender roles and war roles are inextricably linked (inter alia Elshtain, 1995;Goldstein, 2001).…”

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Gender and militaries: the importance of military masculinities for the conduct of state sanctioned violence

Basham¹

2016

Handbook on Gender and War

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Chapter 10. Wars, Wimps, and Women: Talking Gender and Thinking War

Cited by 128 publications

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The Feeling of Numbers: Emotions in Everyday Engagements with Data and Their Visualisation

The Feeling of Numbers: Emotions in Everyday Engagements with Data and Their Visualisation

For a revival of feminist consciousness-raising: horizontal transformation of epistemologies and transgression of neoliberal TimeSpace

Gender and militaries: the importance of military masculinities for the conduct of state sanctioned violence

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