Sexing the Soldier

Woodward, Rachel; Winter, Trish

doi:10.4324/9780203946251

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“…Moreover, precisely because they are young people, they may be told different stories, or stories may be told in different ways 12 . Working in this way undeniably had effects, bringing in narrative lines masked in the original research, and in research on military masculinities (Barrett 1996; Higate 2003; Hockey 1986; Morgan 1987; Woodward and Winter 2007); and masking issues that our research highlighted, and which we have written about elsewhere (Gregson, Watkins and Calestani 2010). As such, this translation worked as the classic form of the copy, showing that re‐articulation and re‐presentation open up spaces of difference, permitting new readings of research and admitting new audiences into that research, in the process of its conduct.…”

Section: Dialogues Transformations and Translationsmentioning

confidence: 88%

Building Bridges Through Performance and Decision‐making: Schools, Research and Public Engagement

Gregson

Watkins

Broughton³

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This paper uses the impact agenda in the UK to realign debate about the relationship between schools, universities and (human) geography. It positions this debate in systemic tendencies within UK higher education. It argues that, whilst impact can be seen as a further instance of neoliberalism, emphasising the gap between accountability and accounting allows an identification with communicative and reflexive knowledge and, more broadly, critical praxis. The paper draws on a year-long research-based collaboration with school teachers and their students involving performance work and the development of decision-making curriculum materials. It argues that working in these ways with schools can provide the basis for public engagement partnerships between schools and universities and a means to constitute diverse research publics. In these ways, it is argued, a wider sense of impact can be reappropriated, to reclaim the critical subject and to constitute academic value

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Section: Dialogues Transformations and Translationsmentioning

confidence: 88%

Building Bridges Through Performance and Decision‐making: Schools, Research and Public Engagement

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Watkins

Broughton³

et al. 2011

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“…It is to the wider implications of these issues that this article speaks. Indeed, although military forums are relatively unique in terms of the particular culture of the military (see, for example, Barrett, 1996; Goldstein, 2001; Hale, 2008; Silvestri, 2013; Woodward et al, 2009; Woodward and Winter, 2007), we find our examples have a much wider resonance – particularly for social media – that we need to consider.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 94%

Beyond ‘pseudonymity’: The sociotechnical structure of online military forums

Maltby

Thornham

Bennett

2017

New Media & Society

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This article explores the tensions apparent in anonymous military online forums as sites of publicly visible yet discursively intimate performances of military identity and sites of distinct power relations. This article draws on data collected from British military forums and the organisations that own and manage them. We consider the discursive online practices within the forums and the extent to which the technological affordances of ‘anonymity’ (or what we define as pseudonymity) act as a critical interface between the military community who contribute to the content and non-military observers who read, access, mine and appropriate the content. In so doing, we raise critical questions about the nature of ‘anonymity’ and the complex tensions in and negotiations of private and public, visibility and invisibility that occur through it and the framing and monetising of particular online communities for economic and political purpose.

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“…It is in the enforced nakedness at Camp Breadbasket that we see the 'unhappy echo' of soldiers' own routine and non-sexual nakedness, 65 and the concrete materialisation of ghosts that had been rendered un-visible. Unlike recruit nakedness during basic training or on a camp base while on a tour of duty, 66 the nakedness that took place in Camp Breadbasket did not signify togetherness, bonding, and asexuality.…”

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“…Woodward and Winter recall one former Royal Marine telling themtaking care to emphasise the completely 'routine and non-sexual nature of this nakedness' -that 'being naked together with other men is a completely normal part of contemporary British military life'. 49 In this homosocial context, group nakedness is just another body practice (like eating together, wearing the same uniform, or physical training) that works to produce a bonded team of militarised and masculine men. 50 As numerous authors 51 have pointed to, much of the discourse surrounding military life is concerned with this important bond, or even love, between 'the boys'.…”

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“…Nakedness in this context represents unity, fraternity, the singularity of male bodies; it serves as an 'insistent reminder that the group are ''one body''; that is, male bodies'. 52 A militarised masculine identity is constructed in and through these practices and the gendered discourses that surround them. This 'male bonding' and homosociality relies upon the exorcism and expulsion of sexuality, 53 specifically homosexuality, from the practices of basic training.…”

Section: The Myth Of Asexualitymentioning

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Militarised violences, basic training, and the myths of asexuality and discipline

Welland¹

2013

Rev. Int. Stud.

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In recent years numerous reports of prisoner abuse and other militarised violences by British troops stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan have emerged. Drawing on two such incidents – the abuse of detainees at Camp Breadbasket and the murder of Baha Mousa – this article seeks to locate such violences on a continuum that can be traced back to the ways in which British soldiers are trained. Following on from a burgeoning feminist literature on militarised masculinities, and using Avery Gordon's epistemology of ghosts and hauntings, I suggest a conceptual and methodological intervention into the subject that resists generalised stories and the mapping of ‘hard’ borders. Focusing on the myths of asexuality and discipline that emerge from, and reinforce, the gendered discourses of basic training, I conduct a ‘ghost hunt’ of the haunting spectres that have attempted to be exorcised from these myths. Making visible these ghost(s) and tracing their (violent) materialisations through multiple sites and across a continuum, militarised violences – in all their ranges – begin to be made explicable.

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Sexing the Soldier

Cited by 83 publications

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Building Bridges Through Performance and Decision‐making: Schools, Research and Public Engagement

Building Bridges Through Performance and Decision‐making: Schools, Research and Public Engagement

Beyond ‘pseudonymity’: The sociotechnical structure of online military forums

Militarised violences, basic training, and the myths of asexuality and discipline

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