Political Identities/Nationalism as Heterosexism

Peterson, V. Spike

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“…A number of feminist theorists have suggested that this means that, in practice, the civilian immunity principle is complicit in violences done in the name of protecting women qua wars' innocent others (for example, Peterson, 1999). Recently, though, the literature has expanded to see yet another implication (Sjoberg and Peet, 2011;Sjoberg, 2013).…”

Section: Gender Roles and The Non-combatant Immunity Principlementioning

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Witnessing the protection racket: Rethinking justice in/of wars through gender lenses

Sjoberg

2016

Int Polit

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Using as a starting point both feminist critiques of just war theorizing and feminist reconstructions of traditional theoretical approaches to the concept, causes and consequences of war(s), this article looks to outline a feminist approach to re-theorizing war ethics that explicitly accounts for and rejects the current gender biases it creates and reifies. It begins by suggesting that the just war tradition is conceptually and empirically inseparable from gendered notions of warfare, which are gender security and to securitize gender. Therefore, it suggests, war ethics through gender lenses need to be rebuilt from the ground up, paying attention to the heretofore gendered nature not only of war ethics, but also of war justificatory narratives, war practices and war experiences.The article suggests a dialectical hermeneutic framework for feminist war ethics as a basis for theorizing forward from the longstanding feminist recognition that the very concept of warfare is gendered, relying on Robin Schott's (2008) work on witness as a theoretical basis. After outlining this approach generally, the article concludes by sketching out an example of the potential for a feminist approach to war ethics in action, examining the use whole-body image scanners in airport security assemblages. International Politics (2016) 53, 361-384. doi:10.1057/ip.2016.5; published online 11 March 2016Keywords: gender; just war theory; international security; airport security; queer theory; cisprivilege In front of me in line in US customs in August after a long trans-Atlantic flight was someone whose 'papers' did not 'match' their 'correct' sex on their 'ID'. The agent commented loudly that the person must be a gay man to wear a skirt. The woman, clearly tired and scared, was trying desperately to explain -showing a valid US passport, discussing gender transition, and even trying to show likeness to the picture. The account was uncompelling, apparently, though, and I heard the agent identify her as a 'mismatch' and a 'behavior' flag. As they took her away to the mythological small room for questioning, the person was shaking, and clearly about to cry. I quietly checked

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Section: Gender Roles and The Non-combatant Immunity Principlementioning

confidence: 98%

Witnessing the protection racket: Rethinking justice in/of wars through gender lenses

Sjoberg

2016

Int Polit

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“…Scholars of immigration, sexuality, and nationalism have consistently argued that the nation-state's commitment to national security has long engendered a profoundly heteronormative dimension. 10 Some have even argued that heterosexism is a necessary component to the history of nationalism in the United States and elsewhere, 11 while others maintain that in a post-9=11 world, one can easily see how the threat to national security, particularly in the form of the brown male terrorist, is always feminized, made into a ''fag.'' The ''monster-terrorist-fag,'' to use Puar and Rai's term, is positioned against the white, hyper-heterosexual, hegemonically masculine American patriot.…”

Section: National(ist) (In)securitiesmentioning

confidence: 98%

Exploring the Defeat of Arizona's Marriage Amendment and the Specter of the Immigrant as Queer

Chávez

2009

Southern Communication Journal

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“…Whether embedded in pronatalist, 'right to life' or health rationales, the regulation of women's reproductive behavior situates membership in the nation-state in racist, sexist and homophobic frames (Smyth 2000;Roseneil 2001;Zalewski 2003). At a time when political transitions -postcommunist, postapartheid, post-conflict -have involved violent realigning of national borders, dramatic shifts in ethnic and racial identities in the course of migration and ethnic warfare and the reassertion of purportedly 'natural' divisions of labor between the sexes that relegate women to traditional reproductive roles, and legislation to 'defend' marriage against gay and lesbian citizens, IFjP authors have raised serious questions about the purported universality of citizenship (Peterson 1999;Yuval-Davis 1999;Beasley and Bacchi 2000). They have attempted to disrupt nationalism's rhetorical power to mask hierarchies of difference with appeals to shared ancestry, blood or land.…”

Section: Borrowings That Enable New Modes Of Thoughtmentioning

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Institutionalizing Insurgency

Hawkesworth

2009

International Feminist Journal of Politics

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Political Identities/Nationalism as Heterosexism

Cited by 231 publications

References 14 publications

Witnessing the protection racket: Rethinking justice in/of wars through gender lenses

Witnessing the protection racket: Rethinking justice in/of wars through gender lenses

Exploring the Defeat of Arizona's Marriage Amendment and the Specter of the Immigrant as Queer

Institutionalizing Insurgency

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