Masculinity, Race and Citizenship: Soldiers’ Memories of the American Revolution

Knouff, Gregory T.

doi:10.1057/9780230283046_17

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“…Situating state militaries within the national gender order has proven extremely valuable in understanding conventional inter-state wars. CSMM scholars have been able to show how states draw on notions of manhood to mobilize men from marginalized class and racial groups to fight (Knouff 2010). The state has been theorized as the mechanism through which two competing gender orders clash, and numerous critical military studies scholars have explored the ways in which the military is integral to the maintenance of western gender orders, mobilizing complicit masculinities in the maintenance of hegemonic arrangements (Zalewski and Parpart 1997;Hutchings 2008;Parpart and Zalewski 2008;Belkin 2012;Sjoberg 2013).…”

Section: Gender Orders and Methodological Nationalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Militarized masculinities beyond methodological nationalism: charting the multiple masculinities of an Indonesian jihadi

Duriesmith

Ismail

2019

Int. Theory

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Studies of masculinity and armed conflict have struggled to capture the complex interaction between globalized militarized masculinities and local gender formations. Particularly in conflicts characterized by a high degree of combatant mobility (in the form of foreign fighters, massed displacement, or significant diaspora involvement) locating the relevant gender dynamics can prove to be a difficult step in understanding the character of armed groups. Based on fieldwork with Indonesian former foreign fighters, we make the case that feminist international relations have tended to unreflectively default to the nation when locating gender hierarchies. Exploring the multiple articulations of masculinity present in former fighters’ lives, we suggest that efforts must be made to resist methodological nationalism in understanding the relationship between gender hierarchies and armed conflict. Charting how foreign fighters traverse local constructions of gender, national gender hierarchies, and transnational social structures to participate in the conflict, we argue that adopting a conscious consideration of scale in our research method is needed to move beyond methodological nationalism.

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Section: Gender Orders and Methodological Nationalismmentioning

confidence: 99%