Rethinking Masculinity and Practices of Violence in Conflict Settings

Kirby, Paul

doi:10.1080/14616742.2012.726091

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“…Genderový výzkum se nerovná výzkumu pouze žen. Ačkoli velké množství děl se zabývá rolemi žen v bezpečnostních strukturách, výzkum maskulinit je stále více prominentní ve feministických bezpečnostních studiích (Haider 2016;Higate 2007;Kirby -Henry 2012;Parpart 2015;Welland 2013) stejně tak jako výzkum sexuality a jejího vztahu k mezinárodní politice (Richter-Montpetit 2018; Shepherd -Sjoberg 2012;Weber 2016;Wilcox 2014).…”

Section: Vývoj Výzkumu Genderu V Mezinárodní Bezpečnostiunclassified

How to Study Gender in International Security? An Introduction to Feminist Security Studies

Krulišová¹,

Rychnovská²

2020

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Thinking on war, violence and security has always been associated with concepts of femininity and masculinity. Similarly, wars and political transformations also change the notions of the roles of women and men in society. This article shows how the links between gender identities and threat construction, understanding of aggression, or social sensitivity to different types of victims of violence can be studied academically. It introduces feminist security studies, embeds it in the research of international relations and security, and encourages its development in the Czech academic environment. The article introduces key concepts and methods of studying gender in (international) security, identifies key themes in feminist security research, and explains various approaches and types of questions that can be investigated in this area.

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Section: Vývoj Výzkumu Genderu V Mezinárodní Bezpečnostiunclassified

How to Study Gender in International Security? An Introduction to Feminist Security Studies

Krulišová¹,

Rychnovská²

2020

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“…While feminist academic inquiries in conflict and security studies have long explored the multifaceted relationships between masculinities, femininities, and security (e.g., Connell 2002;Whitworth 2004;Hutchings 2008;Kirby and Henry 2012;Duncanson 2013;Myrttinen, Khattab, and Naujoks 2017;Duriesmith 2017a), men are rarely explicitly referenced in WPS policies, and masculinities even less commonly. In the international policy framework on WPS, men, boys, and masculinities are notable by their absence (Cohn, Kinsella, and Gibbings 2004, 137;Otto 2006, 168;Shepherd 2008, 116-117;Cockburn 2012a, 55;Myrttinen 2019b, 89-91).…”

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“Masculinities perspectives”: advancing a radical Women, Peace and Security agenda?

Wright

2019

International Feminist Journal of Politics

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Feminist scholars have long explored the relationships between masculinities, femininities, and war, yet men are rarely named in Women, Peace and Security (WPS) policies, and masculinities even less commonly. Some activists in favor of bringing analysis of masculinities into WPS policies propose that a focus on reshaping masculinities and femininities as a strategy for resisting militarism is necessary to return the agenda to what they perceive as its "original" purpose of preventing war. Drawing on my personal experiences as an NGO advocate, and on participant observation and interviews with UK government officials, this article explores what we can learn from efforts to integrate a "masculinities perspective" into WPS policies. I argue that, while some language concerning men and boys and, to a lesser degree, masculinity/ies has been incorporated into these policies, this is usually done in ways that subvert the intentions of civil society actors who have advocated for this shift. As a result, these concepts have been assimilated in ways that do not challenge militarism, and indeed at times serve to normalize it. I argue that this demonstrates the limitations of WPS policies as a vehicle for pursuing feminist anti-militarist goals.

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“…33 Entrevista al expandillero José (20/07/2008). relacional de que el militarismo exacerba la masculinidad hegemónica en Colombia no es nuevo, como tampoco lo es el papel que juega la violencia en consolidar las ortodoxias de género, aunque en ocasiones esto ha sido controvertido (Meertens, 2014;Theidon, 2012;Kirby & Henry, 2012;Ortega, 2012). En el caso de las pandillas de las comunas populares, el imaginario de la violencia y la reproducción cultural de las infamias pandilleras son potentes.…”

Section: Convertirse En Un Duro: "Uno Causa Temor Cuando Uno Hace Lasunclassified

Convertirse en El Más Malo: trayectorias masculinas de violencia en las pandillas de Medellín

Baird

2018

Estud. Socio-Juríd

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Con base en 40 entrevistas de historias de vida con miembros de las pandillas de Medellín, Colombia, la presente investigación argumenta que muchos jóvenes se unen a las pandillas con el fin de emular y reproducir identidades masculinas que se consideran localmente ‘exitosas’. La acumulación de ‘capital masculino’ por parte de las pandillas, con sus significantes materiales y simbólicos de hombría, acompañados de demostraciones y manifestaciones estilísticas, lleva a los jóvenes a percibirlas como espacios de éxito masculino, lo cual impulsa la reproducción social de las pandillas. Una vez vinculados a la pandilla, se vuelven cada vez más ‘malos’, haciendo uso de la violencia para defender los intereses de la pandilla a cambio de capital masculino. Los líderes de las pandillas, conocidos localmente como los duros, tienden a ser los más malos. El ‘proceso de empandillamiento’ no debe entenderse como un comportamiento juvenil aberrante, sino más bien como un comportamiento lógico y práctico, dado que se percibe a la pandilla como un espacio aspiracional de formación de identidad para jóvenes que llegan a la mayoría de edad en un momento en que las condiciones estructurales de exclusión conspiran contra ellos.

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Rethinking Masculinity and Practices of Violence in Conflict Settings

Cited by 41 publications

References 18 publications

How to Study Gender in International Security? An Introduction to Feminist Security Studies

How to Study Gender in International Security? An Introduction to Feminist Security Studies

“Masculinities perspectives”: advancing a radical Women, Peace and Security agenda?

Convertirse en El Más Malo: trayectorias masculinas de violencia en las pandillas de Medellín

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