Intimacy, warfare, and gender hierarchy

Sjoberg, Laura

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2014.09.008

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“…Studies of post-conflict peacebuilding, in particular, have sought to expand our purview of what processes and mechanisms are required to transform a society from being 'at war' to 'at peace' (Cahn & Ni Aolain, 2009;Cockburn, 2010;Myrttinen, 2003). Beyond disarming, demobilizing and reintegrating of soldiers, feminists have sought to expose the more obscure and deeply embedded forms of militarism that become infused through social, economic, and political practices of the state (Barry, 2011;Enloe, 2000;Sjoberg, 2015), and are fundamentally rooted in the structural condition of patriarchy (MacKinnon, 1989;Pateman, 1988).…”

Section: Masculinist Fetishism Of Militarismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Militarized peace: understanding post-conflict violence in the wake of the peace deal in Colombia

Meger

Sachseder

2020

Globalizations

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After more than 50 years of war, in 2016, the Colombian government signed a historic peace accord with the country's largest rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Although the cessation of hostilities between the rebel group and the government is a monumental step, violence remains rife in the country. By drawing attention to the correlation between neoliberal economic development in the country and militarism, this paper sheds light on several structural issues that have been left potentially unresolved by the peace negotiations, each with the potential to ignite further violence. We introduce the concept of militaristic neoliberalism to argue that there is a fundamental link between Colombia's neoliberal development and a culture of militarism, which relies on gendered and racialized constructions of 'self' and 'other', that exacerbate structural inequalities and severely hampers prospects for achieving peace for many of Colombia's citizens post-conflict.

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Section: Masculinist Fetishism Of Militarismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Militarized peace: understanding post-conflict violence in the wake of the peace deal in Colombia

Meger

Sachseder

2020

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“…Women's everyday experiences or everyday violence referred to in this paper include more than physical harm; they are intimate and include invisible forms of violence such as deprivation, fear, humiliation, vulnerability and 'ugly feelings' such as anger (Pratt & Rosner, 2012). An embodied view of violence then means looking at the ways that violence itself as well as its emotional and psychological effects are wound into everyday lives and even what it means to live (Sjoberg, 2014). Structural violence occurs without a single person touching another and may include political, social, economic and environmental factors (Moser & McIlwaine, 2006) whereas institutional violence is caused, for example, by the police or military.…”

Section: Feminist Geopolitics: An Embodied View Of Violencementioning

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Complicating notions of violence: An embodied view of violence against women in Honduras

Jokela-Pansini

2020

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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Feminist geographic analysis has demonstrated that violence inflicted on women is embodied, experienced and personal and at the same time, linked to global socio-political and economic processes and patriarchal norms. Consequently, violence is a complex system instead of a norm located in certain places. In heavily militarised societies, patriarchal power regimes are even more prevalent because states’ security strategies promote a masculinist understanding of protection as to who should be protected and by whom – and from what. This study draws on feminist geopolitical analysis and explores how feminist activists in Honduras experience and resist violence in their everyday lives. The research is grounded in interviews, focus-group discussions and participant observation with Honduran activists. The findings demonstrate that violence and its effects are first embedded in women’s everyday lives through feelings of fear and unsafety on the streets, at the workplace and at home. Second, violence operates through structures and institutions such as the military and police, impunity for violence against women and the juridical restriction of reproductive rights. Third, the internationally financed war on drugs and ‘development’ projects contribute to violence, thus, there is a link between intimate experiences of violence and global economic and military powers that sustain violence. Activists therefore argue that, for their needs, the state’s and international organisations’ security approaches are inadequate. The paper weaves together feminist visions of collective self-care and discusses activists’ strategies against violence. This study contributes to a growing feminist geographic scholarship linking women’s bodily experiences with violence and responds to calls for complicating notions of violence.

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“…Slow violence draws attention to temporal registers but in this paper we explore Fuckland through its insidiousness. Our use of insidious here recognises the gradual and subtle layering of violence (see Nixon, 2011), by casting a particular light on its covert qualities, the insecurities it can produce and the emotional and psychological effects and after-effects on the bodies that unevenly experience it (see Benwell, 2019;Botterill et al, 2016;Fluri, 2009;Sjoberg, 2015).…”

Section: Situating Fuckland (2000)mentioning

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Everyday invasions: Fuckland, geopolitics, and the (re)production of insecurity in the Falkland Islands

Benwell

Pinkerton

2020

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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Academic and popular debates examining the geopolitics of the Falklands Islands/Islas Malvinas have focused overwhelming attention on the 1982 war and its aftermath in ways that foreground (in)security in predominantly militaristic terms. Notwithstanding these tendencies, this paper seeks to think through another example of ‘invasion’ of the Falkland Islands that has been important in provoking and sustaining insecurity among Islanders. The film Fuckland (2000), directed by José Luis Marqués, was shot covertly in the Falklands without the consent of Falkland Islanders who unwittingly star in it. By examining the scales, sites, practices and shifting temporalities of Fuckland, as well as the everyday insecurities it (re)produces, we show how the bodies, homes and community of Falkland Islanders have been territorialised in the Argentine geopolitical imagination, and therefore subject to modes of violence. Fuckland also exposes the enmeshing of practical, popular and everyday geopolitics in productive ways that allow us to address popular geopolitics’ approaches to ‘the cinematic’ (and other media). Rather than treating Fuckland’s production and consumption as distinctive temporal moments, we seek to account for how film can linger and reverberate in often subtle and sinister ways long after fading from mainstream public attention. We position the film as a lively geopolitical object with ongoing emotional and other effects/affects that have the potential to ‘feed back’ into practical/everyday geopolitical and diplomatic relations. Examining these kinds of events can be useful in understanding why the Falkland Islands Government (and the Islanders themselves) continue to be so cautious in their management of contemporary diplomatic relations with Argentina.

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Intimacy, warfare, and gender hierarchy

Cited by 10 publications

References 12 publications

Militarized peace: understanding post-conflict violence in the wake of the peace deal in Colombia

Militarized peace: understanding post-conflict violence in the wake of the peace deal in Colombia

Complicating notions of violence: An embodied view of violence against women in Honduras

Everyday invasions: Fuckland, geopolitics, and the (re)production of insecurity in the Falkland Islands

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