Monographie

Gender and private security in global politics / edited by Maya Eichler

Type de contenu
  • Texte
Type de médiation
  • sans médiation
Titre(s)
  • Gender and private security in global politics / edited by Maya Eichler
Autre(s) responsabilité(s)
Editeur, producteur
  • Oxford : New York (N.Y.) : Auckland [etc.] : Oxford university press, cop. 2015
Description matérielle
  • 1 vol. (XVI-286 p.) ; 25 cm
Collection
  • Oxford studies in gender and international relations
ISBN
  • 978-0-19-936437-4
  • 0-19-936437-0
  • 978-0-19-936438-1
  • 0-19-936438-9
EAN
  • 9780199364374 rel.
Appartient à la collection
  • Oxford studies in gender and international relations
Classification décimale Dewey
  • 355.008 2
  • 355.354
Note sur les bibliographies et les index
  • Bibliogr. p. 243-277. Notes bibliogr. Index
Résumé ou extrait
  • Présentation de l'éditeur : "For two hundred years the provision of military security has been a central and defining function of the modern nation-state. The increasing reliance on private military and security companies in contemporary conflict marks a fundamental transformation in the organization of military violence, and it raises issues of accountability and ethics that are of particular concern to feminists. This privatization of force not only enables states to circumvent citizens' democratic control over questions of war and peace, but also undermines women's and minority groups' claims for greater inclusion in the military sphere. Gender and Private Security in Global Politics brings together key scholars from the fields of international relations, security studies, and gender studies to argue that privatization of military security is a deeply gendered process. The chapters employ a variety of feminist perspectives, including critical, postcolonial, poststructuralist, and queer feminist perspectives, as well as a wide range of methodological approaches including ethnography, participant-observation, genealogy, and discourse analysis. This is the first book to develop an extended feminist analysis of private militaries and to draw on feminist concerns regarding power, justice and equality to consider how to reform and regulate private forces."
  • "For two hundred years the provision of military security has been a central and defining function of the modern nation-state. The increasing reliance on private military and security companies in contemporary conflict marks a fundamental transformation in the organization of military violence, and it raises issues of accountability and ethics that are of particular concern to feminists. This privatization of force not only enables states to circumvent citizens' democratic control over questions of war and peace, but also undermines the claims for greater inclusion in the military sphere made by women and minority groups over the past decades. Gender and Private Security in Global Politics brings together key scholars in the emerging research area of "critical gender studies in private security." These scholars contend that the privatization of military security is a deeply gendered process, with gendered underpinnings and effects. Consequently, they employ a variety of feminist perspectives, including critical, postcolonial, poststructuralist, and queer feminist perspectives, as well as a wide range of methodological approaches such as ethnography, participant-observation, genealogy, and discourse analysis, in order to consider answers to questions about how to reform and regulate private forces."
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