Empire, Desire and Violence: A Queer Transnational Feminist Reading of the Prisoner ‘Abuse’ in Abu Ghraib and the Question of ‘Gender Equality’

Richter-Montpetit, Melanie

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“…In contrast to practices of racialization and gendering that are written on the body, colonial and neocolonial regimes have also established ethnocultural hierarchies through regulation of domesticity, mobility, migration and visuality (Raissiguier 1999;Philipose 2007;Kuokkanen 2008). And as the 'war on terror' and the US occupation of Iraq have once again made painfully clear, violence and torture are themselves primary instruments of racialization (Philipose 2007;Richter-Montpetit 2007;Sjoberg 2007). When neoliberal globalism weds free trade and antiterrorism under the rubric of democratization, racial profiling justified as a securitization measure mobilizes internal divisions within the nation that haunt formal and informal economic sectors, voting booths, educational institutions and civil society organizations.…”

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confidence: 97%

Institutionalizing Insurgency

Hawkesworth

2009

International Feminist Journal of Politics

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Section: Borrowings That Enable New Modes Of Thoughtmentioning

confidence: 97%

Institutionalizing Insurgency

Hawkesworth

2009

International Feminist Journal of Politics

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“…Security practices, security policies and security discourses are all political in the sense that they implicate power relations and can be critiqued and politicised as such. The potential scope of what is political about the problem of security is ever expanding thanks to a broad range of critical scholarship, from feminist approaches that unpack the gendered power relations of security practices (Hansen 2000, Richter-Montpetit 2007 to analyses of proliferating techniques of security governance such as risk management, insurance, bordering and surveillance (Vaughan-Williams 2007, Amoore and de Goede 2008, Salter 2008a, Basaran 2010, Lobo-Guerrero 2011. Jef Huysmans argues that such contest over the political meaning of security calls into question not only the identification of security threats but also the nature and limits of political community itself.…”

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‘Events dear boy, events’: terrorism and security from the perspective of politics

Neal

2012

Critical Studies on Terrorism

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“…57 By using female interrogators to feminise Iraqi men, the US military enacted colonial and masculine authority over them. 58 Enactments of colonial power are therefore tied closely to notions of race and gender. Identifying the ways in which this example of torture is a form of masculinised colonisation, nuclear weapons can be seen to work in similar ways.…”

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More bang for your buck: Nuclear weapons and their enactment of colonial and gendered power

Urwin¹

2017

AURJ

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Analysing the nuclear weapons regime through both postcolonial and feminist frameworks demonstrates that the possession of nuclear weapons has incredibly important implications for the security agenda. While both postcolonial and feminist scholars have delved into the relationships between their respective disciplines and the dynamics of the nuclear weapons regime, gaps in the scholarship ensure that postcolonial feminist critiques of the regime are lacking. This article endeavours to combine postcolonial and feminist critiques to demonstrate how the nuclear weapons regime is underpinned by pertinent gendered and colonial assumptions. These assumptions ensure that certain states are prioritised over others; namely, the behaviour of nuclear weapons states is considered more legitimate than that of 'rogue states', their desire for nuclear weapons hinged upon racial, colonial and gendered assumptions of legitimacy. Closely analysing the gendered and colonial dynamics of the nuclear weapons regime sheds light upon how patriarchy and imperialism have shaped the security agenda in regard to nuclear weapons.Security matters in the way that it demonstrates the political world order and its power structures. Dominant security discourses are demonstrative of whose voices are taken seriously and whose issues are deemed most important in international politics. By examining nuclear weapons through a postcolonial feminist framework, one can shed light on these dominant narratives as colonial and gendered constructions of power. Starting with postcolonial arguments, this article will demonstrate how the nuclear weapons regime has been manipulated by powerful states, benefiting their interests while overlooking those of seemingly 'lesser states'. This colonial domination of nuclear weapons has significant implications for the wider security field as, arguably, the possession of nuclear weapons remains a prerequisite for superpower status. Following on from this, feminist arguments explored in this article will highlight the gendered link between nuclear weapons and global patriarchy. In regards to security, highly gendered discourses work to feminise 'Third World'

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Empire, Desire and Violence: A Queer Transnational Feminist Reading of the Prisoner ‘Abuse’ in Abu Ghraib and the Question of ‘Gender Equality’

Cited by 68 publications

References 15 publications

Institutionalizing Insurgency

Institutionalizing Insurgency

‘Events dear boy, events’: terrorism and security from the perspective of politics

More bang for your buck: Nuclear weapons and their enactment of colonial and gendered power

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