Navigating gender, power and perceptions when researching NATO: a conversation

Wright, Katharine A. M.; Hurley, Matthew

doi:10.1080/14616742.2017.1324096

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“…As Stern notes, the ‘workings of gender are deeply implicated in processes of militarisation, formulation of security policy and nationalist ideology’ (Stern, , p. 30). Language also becomes complicit in militarization and is in and of itself deeply gendered (Cohn, ), this contributes to the reproduction of gendered power dynamics (Wright and Hurley, ). Military institutions therefore represent an ‘extreme case of the gendered organisation’ (Carreiras, , p. 40), with military activity tied both to male bodies and masculinity (Duncanson and Woodward, , p. 4; Kronsell, , p. 6).…”

Section: Feminist Triangles In Eu Policy‐making: Actors and Processesmentioning

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Transforming CSDP? Feminist Triangles and Gender Regimes

Guerrina

Chappell

Wright

2018

J of Common Market Studies

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Despite equality being considered one of the key normative foundations of the EU, gender has not yet been mainstreamed within the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP). This article investigates the impact of institutional structures on the inclusion of a gender dimension in this policy area. The article engages with the concept of feminist triangles to unpack the role of actors and processes; specifically, highlighting key innovations and missed opportunities to integrate gender into CSDP. Focusing in particular on femocrats, the article argues that for gender mainstreaming to take place, the office of the Gender Advisor needs to bridge the division between the military and civilian dimension of CSDP. It concludes that CSDP remains largely gender blind in spite of the EU's adoption of an action plan for the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security.

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Section: Feminist Triangles In Eu Policy‐making: Actors and Processesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transforming CSDP? Feminist Triangles and Gender Regimes

Guerrina

Chappell

Wright

2018

J of Common Market Studies

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“…Encounters with NATO's bureaucracy and security apparatus can lead outsiders, including civil society, to feel 'uncomfortable and out of place', in turn influencing their perceptions of NATO (Wright and Hurley, 2017). Bridging the gap between an organisation known for its secrecy and civil society who require openness to perform their role as 'critical friends' is a key challenge for an effective CSAP.…”

Section: Perceptions: Encounters With Nato's Bureaucracymentioning

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“…It is worth noting here that CSAP was revised in late 2019 following an independent review commissioned by NATO, neither this review, the new Terms of Reference nor full membership have been made public. This reflects some of the challenges to researching NATO, an institution cloaked in secrecy by merit of its purpose as a security and defence alliance (see Wright and Hurley, 2017 for a wider discussion). Therefore, the focus of this article is on CSAP as it existed prior to this revision, from the first consultation with civil society on WPS policy in 2014 and the formal establishment of CSAP in 2016 until its 2019 revision which led to a change in membership.…”

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Challenging civil society perceptions of NATO: Engaging the Women, Peace and Security agenda

Wright¹

2022

Cooperation and Conflict

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Engagement with the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda by military actors has caused concern among some of its civil society advocates. For example, NATO has adopted the WPS agenda as an increasingly visible part of its self-narrative. Yet what had distinguished NATO’s engagement with WPS from many other actors is that it came without civil society involvement. The establishment of a Civil Society Advisory Panel (CSAP) on WPS in 2014 is therefore highly significant for both NATO and the WPS agenda. Despite this, the efficacy of such consultation is not clear-cut nor its potential to mitigate militarised understandings of WPS and support transformative engagement with the agenda, particularly given the wariness of some civil society to engage with NATO. Drawing on interviews with civil society, this article interrogates their perceptions of NATO in order to understand the potential of such engagements to support transformative understandings of WPS and more broadly the efficacy of civil society engagement with military institutions. In so doing, it examines how such consultation adds to our understanding of NATO as an institution of international hegemonic masculinity.

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“…This is not to say that feminist scholars have not sought to challenge this notion and use the military as a site of analysis: Duncanson (2013: 18), for example, examines feminist debates about how militaries and soldiers can be used to support peace. However, attempts to conceptualize a feminist theory of NATO have to date been temporally fragmented, and only recently has a sustained feminist scrutiny of the alliance begun to emerge (Enloe, 1981, 1983; Hurley, 2016; Wright, 2016; Wright and Hurley, 2017)). This article contributes to that body of work with a consideration of the gendered nature of NATO’s digital diplomacy.…”

Section: Nato’s Engagement With the Women Peace And Security Agendamentioning

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Telling NATO’s story of Afghanistan: Gender and the alliance’s digital diplomacy

Wright

2017

Media, War & Conflict

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NATO’s public diplomacy plays an important role in constituting the alliance’s identity in global politics, yet has remained marginal to many scholarly accounts of the alliance. This article considers NATO’s increasing footprint in digital diplomacy and the role of gendered narratives in shaping it. The central point of analysis is NATO’s ‘story of Afghanistan’, told in the web-documentary Return to Hope, which was released to much acclaim in September 2014 to coincide with the drawdown of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) from Afghanistan. It finds personal narratives given precedence over historical events, key temporal omissions and the silencing of Afghan women. As such, it provides an important critique of the masculinist protection logic underpinning NATO’s efforts, which has served to instrumentalize (Afghan) women and falls short of expectations given the alliance’s commitment to UN Security Council Resolution 1325 and the Women, Peace and Security agenda.

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Navigating gender, power and perceptions when researching NATO: a conversation

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Transforming CSDP? Feminist Triangles and Gender Regimes

Transforming CSDP? Feminist Triangles and Gender Regimes

Challenging civil society perceptions of NATO: Engaging the Women, Peace and Security agenda

Telling NATO’s story of Afghanistan: Gender and the alliance’s digital diplomacy

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