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Nicholas, Lucy; Agius, Christine

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“…As several film scholars have argued, post-9/11 American cinema has shaped and influenced how the public understood the “war on terror” (e.g., Kellner 2010; Markert 2011; McSweeney 2014). Given the clandestine nature of drone surveillance and warfare, and the power of cultural narratives to “change beliefs, reinforce preexisting views, or even displace knowledge gained from other sources for elites as well as mass audiences” (Daniel and Musgrave 2017, 503), it is crucial that scholars examine popular culture representations of drone warfare, which often focuses on the drone pilot (Kammerer 2012; Hasian 2016) since they can “elucidate the gendered and masculinist impulses contained in drone warfare and subjectivity” (Nicholas and Agius 2018, 117).…”

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Unmanned? Military Masculinities in Filmic Representations of US Drone Operators

Bjerre

2022

Men and Masculinities

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Drones have become the new face of American warfare, challenging institutional and cultural norms about what it means to be a soldier. In the context of military masculinities, I examine the representation of the U.S. drone operators in three films: Drones (dir. Rick Rosenthal, 2013), Good Kill (dir. Andrew Niccol, 2014), and Eye in the Sky (dir. Gavin Hood, 2015). The films feature a male-female team of drone operators and can partly be been as counter-narratives to the official idealized story of drone warfare by exposing some of the moral dilemmas facing the drone operators. Yet rarely do the films address the larger ethical issues of how drone technology skirts the legal framework of war. Additionally, the films' reconfiguration of the white male drone operator as morally courageous and a potential savior of innocent women and children on the “battlefield” obscures the racialized and imperialist ideologies bound up in the U.S.-led “war on terror”.

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Unmanned? Military Masculinities in Filmic Representations of US Drone Operators

Bjerre

2022

Men and Masculinities

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“…Having said that, connections of (political) masculinities with public political domains are all too clear in much mainstream politics, not only in populist, authoritarian, ethno-nationalist, fascist and militaristic politics but also in somewhat different ways in democratic, liberal, socialist, anarchist, cyber and various other activist politics. At the collective level, many forms of mainstream, socialist, nationalist and right-wing politics harbour gender-inequitable, hierarchical, patriarchal and masculinist ideologies and practices (Bebel, 1971;Kollantai, 1977Kollantai, [1909 ;Cockburn, 1988;Brittan, 1989;Nicholas and Agius, 2017). Some of these forms of mainstream politics can be explicitly or implicitly gender conscious (Egeberg Holmgren and Hearn, 2009); some are simply misogynist and anti-feminist.…”

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Evaluating the concept of political masculinity/ies: a simple idea or a case of too many ideas?

Hearn

2024

European Journal of Politics and Gender

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This article critically interrogates and evaluates the concept of political masculinities as part of enhancing dialogue between political science and critical studies on men and masculinities. It discusses what counts as masculinity, what counts as political and how they connect. The connections are all too clear in mainstream politics, not only in populist, authoritarian, ethno-nationalist and militaristic politics but also in democratic, socialist and various activist politics. The evaluation of the concept of political masculinities is conducted by asking three main questions: how does the concept add to, complement or contradict existing and established external concepts and theories? How is the concept constructed internally, and with what structure, elements and interrelations? And how can the application of the concept be possibly extended into fields beyond those usually recognized and labelled explicitly as specifically political fields, including the politics of the everyday and the politics of multiple global crises?

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“…involuntary celibates) and ‘pick-up artists’ (i.e. open debates of politicised rape fantasies) (Nicholas and Agius, 2018).…”

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Exploring the populist ‘mind’: Anxiety, fantasy, and everyday populism

Kinnvall

Svensson

2022

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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This article is focused on the appeal of far-right populist politics in the everyday and how this appeal is related to continuity and change in the global order. Contemporary societies have witnessed an upsurge of populist movements and groups set on filling a political space by appealing to a population in search of solutions to an ever-changing political and economic landscape. Here, we specifically highlight the role of ontological insecurity, fantasy narratives, and emotional governance as critical for understanding far-right populist politics. The analysis consequently attends to the centrality of gendered and racialised narratives and to how these are fuelled by feelings of pride, shame, vulnerability, and insecurity. The aim is to show how structures and emotions work in tandem to create far-right support and how these developments are similar across Western and non-Western contexts. Particular attention is paid to far-right narratives that pertain to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Introduction

Cited by 3 publications

References 44 publications

Unmanned? Military Masculinities in Filmic Representations of US Drone Operators

Unmanned? Military Masculinities in Filmic Representations of US Drone Operators

Evaluating the concept of political masculinity/ies: a simple idea or a case of too many ideas?

Exploring the populist ‘mind’: Anxiety, fantasy, and everyday populism

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