Gender and Security Sector Reform: Gendering Differently?

Kunz, Rahel

doi:10.1080/13533312.2014.963319

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“…The missions' visual representations are thus not only gendered, but also conditioned by geo-political relations and racialised, inadvertently exposing continuities in historically entrenched biases and prejudices about "Eastern" and "Southern" local partner communities and actors, both men and women. In line with critical feminist security scholarship (Kunz 2014), these gendered, geo-politicised and racialised power relationships are instrumental to normalising hierarchical relationships between EU mission staff and local beneficiaries. To aim to achieve simple gender equality via SSR, in either Ukraine or Mali, working through and translating gender equality norms into local practices in the security sector, will not be enough.…”

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confidence: 89%

“…knowledge, bureaucratic, controlling and regulatory power). This is a familiar critique often heard from places where international security interventions are taking place (Kunz 2014, Hudson 2015. The continued othering effect of these photographs reinforces the image of Ukrainian women as "non-subjects" against the egalitarian, modern, European subject positions (Gržinić 2012, p. 6).…”

Section: Framing Ukrainian Women Security Actors: Marginal and Decoramentioning

confidence: 89%

“…The main aim is to broaden the focus of scholarship on the EU's external security interventions to include images and their interpretation. In this way, the hope is to contribute to scholarly debates on the policy-practice gap in normatively driven institutions in the realm of security (Mobekk 2010, Gordon 2014, Kunz 2014, Guerrina and Wright 2016, Kronsell 2016, Guerrina et al 2018, Chappell and Guerrina 2020, Hoijtink and Muehlenhoff 2020, Wright and Guerrina 2020. Given the centrality of the equalityand gender equalitynarrative to the EU's internal and external identity (McRae 2010), this article hopes to contribute to critical EU security studies, inspired by Manners' work on "normative Europe" (2002) and equally by critical feminist security studies in IR (Cohn and Enloe 2003, Cockburn 2013, Kronsell 2016, Guerrina et al 2018, Chappell and Guerrina 2020.…”

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confidence: 99%

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EU and gender-security sector reform in Ukraine and Mali: a picture is worth dozens of policies!

Jayasundara-Smits

2020

European Security

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This article is a contribution to critical International Relations scholarship on European Union foreign and security policy and to the debates on "Normative Europe". It focuses on the ways in which the EU engages with their own gender equality policies in external Security Sector Reform (SSR) missions. By analysing visual materials of the European Union Advisory Mission-Ukraine (EUAM Ukraine) and European Union Capacity Building Mission in Sahel Mali (EUCAP Sahel Mali) missions, this article identifies the discrepancies between the EU's proclaimed policy goals about gender equality and visual representations of women and men in the missions' newsletter photos. These representations reflect a lacklustre approach and suggest a lack of commitment to practices of gender equality and positive role modelling in SSR's day-today activities. This article suggests the EU-SSR missions overhaul their public communication strategies to focus first on "how" to communicate gender equality norms and only then on "what" to communicate. This study shows one concrete opportunity and space where this can be achieved.

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Section: Framing Ukrainian Women Security Actors: Marginal and Decoramentioning

confidence: 89%

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EU and gender-security sector reform in Ukraine and Mali: a picture is worth dozens of policies!

Jayasundara-Smits

2020

European Security

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“…Interestingly, she not only contests EU discourse and interference, but also highlights the ways in which international gender mainstreaming strategies can result in inciting backlash and tensions between women and men (Kunz, 2014). Her statement echoes Eastern European feminist critiques rejecting Western gender equality narratives of the oppressed and victimised Eastern European wo/man in need of EU intervention (Slavova, 2006; Snitow, 2006).…”

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Women in the neighbourhood: Reinstating the European Union’s civilising mission on the back of gender equality promotion?

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Maisenbacher

2016

European Journal of International Relations

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The European Union has launched its New European Neighbourhood Policy as a reaction to a ‘changing neighbourhood’. A key novelty in the New European Neighbourhood Policy is the special role attributed to gender equality promotion as an important ingredient of Europeanisation. The literature has so far focused on assessing whether and to what extent neighbourhood countries adopt and implement European Union gender equality norms. Bringing together the feminist and postcolonial literature on gender equality promotion and European identity formation, this article resituates the New European Neighbourhood Policy within the broader debate regarding processes of European identity formation and Europe’s relations with Others. We combine the concept of delineating gendered and racialised coding with the concept of contrapuntal reading to analyse key official European Union documents alongside the voices expressing themselves through new (social) media. This allows us to highlight silences and exclusions within New European Neighbourhood Policy narratives, to resituate these narratives in their historical context, and to render visible the diversity of competing and interrelated narratives related to gender equality promotion. We read the recent focus on gender equality promotion in the New European Neighbourhood Policy as an expression of the ambivalence of European Union identity building: at a moment when neighbouring countries move closer to Europe, either adopting the acquis communautaire or going through democratisation processes, they are placed at a spatial and temporal distance outside Europe. Our analysis highlights the persistence of colonial practices of Othering and hierarchical Self–Other definitions that are reproduced through current New European Neighbourhood Policy policies. Yet, we suggest that this moment might also present an opportunity to render visible and take seriously the co-constitutive relationship between the European Union and its Others, which could point to alternative forms of interaction and identity building.

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“…The security sector is imbued with gendered and patriarchal values and discourses. 23 These prevalent norms and discourses result in a gendered intelligence field. Finnish social geographer Hille Koskela, for instance, alerts us to the fact that everyday surveillance through cameras in public spaces reproduces gendered scrutiny.…”

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State intelligence and the politics of Zimbabwe's presidential succession

Tendi¹

2016

Afr Aff (Lond)

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Since the late 1990s Zimbabwean politics has been shaped by the political succession war raging within the ruling ZANU PF party. The internal fight to succeed President Robert Mugabe pitted a faction controlled by retired General Solomon Mujuru, who was fronting his wife Joice Mujuru, against another faction led by Emmerson Mnangagwa, a government minister. The competition between these factions reached a crucial stage in 2014, when Mugabe dismissed Joice Mujuru as Vice-President and purged her key allies in ZANU PF and the government. This article examines the role of state intelligence in this struggle, arguing that the Military Intelligence (MI) leadership, which supported Mnangagwa in the succession conflict, placed Joice Mujuru under surveillance and constructed a controversial gendered case to destroy her bid to succeed Mugabe. In contrast, some elements in the principal civilian intelligence institution, the Central Intelligence Organization, conducted a surveillance operation against the Mnangagwa faction in order to support Joice Mujuru's power bid. The article widens scholarship on the security sector's political interventions in Zimbabwean politics, while emphasizing how the gendered dimensions of surveillance can reinforce patriarchal national politics. PRESIDENT ROBERT MUGABE has led the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front (ZANU PF) party and Zimbabwe since 1977 and 1980, respectively. Mugabe, a nonagenarian, is Africa's oldest serving president. The length of his incumbency among current African leaders is surpassed only by the tenures of Paul Biya (Cameroon), Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo (Equatorial Guinea) and José Eduardo dos Santos (Angola). Rising domestic discontent with Mugabe's seemingly interminable leadership was one of the reasons for the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party's formation in 1999 and the rise to prominence of its leader Morgan Tsvangirai as an alternative national

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Gender and Security Sector Reform: Gendering Differently?

Cited by 16 publications

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EU and gender-security sector reform in Ukraine and Mali: a picture is worth dozens of policies!

EU and gender-security sector reform in Ukraine and Mali: a picture is worth dozens of policies!

Women in the neighbourhood: Reinstating the European Union’s civilising mission on the back of gender equality promotion?

State intelligence and the politics of Zimbabwe's presidential succession

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