On the necessity of critical race feminism for women, peace and security

Henry, Marsha

doi:10.1080/21624887.2021.1904191

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“…Racial silence extends outside academic research and into organizations that report on the state of peace. While there is a commitment in some reports to include diversity, inclusion, and social justice measures, these reports on peace in the United States do not include systemic racism or racism measures (Azarmandi, 2018; Bonilla-Silva, 2010; Henry, 2021). The 2019 Institute for Economics and Peace report on positive peace includes some relevant measures, such as the acceptance of rights of others, equitable distribution of resources, good relations with neighbors, and high levels of social capital.…”

Section: Peace Studies Racial Silence and Racial Violencementioning

confidence: 99%

A false peace: Bringing racism and race into peace scholarship in the metropole.

Toussaint,

Rosino

2024

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

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Peace and conflict scholarship cannot afford to ignore the challenges posed by ongoing racial oppression. The dominance of racially silent research in the United States and Europe has significant implications for how peace is examined and framed and thus shapes the implementation of peace processes and policies. Examining the five leading journals in peace and conflict studies and many institutional reports, we find significant omissions of race and racism scholarship and Black peace activists and scholars who presciently connected issues of conflict and peace with racism, antiracism, and social and racial justice. To help address these omissions, we demonstrate the implications of examining race and racism from a critical sociological perspective and how it can address distortions in peace and conflict studies and contribute to significant epistemological and practical shifts in the field. We show how the inclusion of these concepts and theories of race and racism challenges race-neutral scholarship's preponderance in the field and upends many of its core assumptions. Public Significance StatementThe present study demonstrates pathways for integrating critical sociology theories and concepts of racism and race into models of peace and conflict to help address the harms and distortions of the field's racial silence. We also outline how the inclusion of these ideas, and the contributions of Black peace activists can inform new ways of thinking about and practicing peace.

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Section: Peace Studies Racial Silence and Racial Violencementioning

confidence: 99%

A false peace: Bringing racism and race into peace scholarship in the metropole.

Toussaint,

Rosino

2024

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

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“…There is a growing body of work paying careful attention to the raced politics of security (Eriksson Baaz and Verweijen, 2018;Henry, 2021;Richter-Montpetit, 2019, 2020;Security Dialogue, 2020), these drawing on an extensive literature within and beyond IR (Anievas et al, 2015;Henderson, 2013;Rutazibwa, 2020;Sabaratnam, 2020). This work has demonstrated how the categories on which both security policy and theory rely -threat, danger, vulnerability, death, norm and exception, the human -are rooted in and generative of colonial, racist, and white supremacist politics.…”

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Transgressing to teach: Theorising race and security through struggle

Rossdale

2021

Politics

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Recent interventions in critical security studies have argued that the field has struggled to account for the racialised/racist foundations of security politics. This article engages with the US Black Panther Party (BPP), arguing that the Party did important work to show how security politics is dependent on racial violence. The idea that we can theorise global politics through struggle (`struggle as method’) is becoming popular within disciplinary International Relations (IR), but has longer lineages in Black radical thought. The BPP were important advocates of struggle as method, with tactics and strategies intentionally designed with a pedagogical purpose; through Panther actions (including community self-defence and survival programmes), and the state’s response to these, the mechanisms of capitalist white supremacy were laid bare. The article therefore acknowledges BPP action as a series of theoretical interventions, which demonstrated how the terms of US/white security are rooted in and dependent on anti-Blackness. It also shows how Panther tactics prefigured alternative, radical, anti-statist approaches to security, these conceptualised as `survival pending revolution’. The article closes by arguing that scholarship on critical security studies - especially as related to the racialised politics of security - should do more to work with and acknowledge its indebtedness to struggle as method.

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“…To my knowledge, at the time of writing, there have yet to be discourse analyses published that focus on this NAP and so the research has the potential to make a novel contribution to the already well-established literature on WPS policy analysis, including the existing literature on discursive NAP analyses (refer to Hudson 2017; Madsen and Hudson 2020). Existing discourse analyses of NAPs (see, e.g., Drummond and Rebelo 2020; Hudson 2017; Madsen and Hudson 2020) have surfaced the importance of studying the language of peacebuilding policy documents as a means not only to understand the local gendered conditions from which these texts emanate, but also as a critical site for the potential rupturing of gendered power relations to work towards more holistic and enduring experiences of peace and equality for all citizens, including and especially those who identify outside of traditional gender binaries and whose gender and sexual identities intersect with other axes of oppression (Haastrup and Hagen 2021;Henry 2021).…”

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Paz con género: un análisis feminista queer del Plan Nacional de Acción sobre Mujeres, Paz y Seguridad de Sudáfrica (2020-2025)

Pinheiro

2023

rev. estud. soc.

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This research paper presents a queer feminist analysis of gendered discourses in South Africa's (SA) (2020-2025) National Action Plan (NAP) on Women, Peace, and Security (WPS). It builds on an extensive field of WPS scholarship by using the case study of SA's NAP to illustrate how policy can be used to harness critical gendered language and create possibilities for radical (re)imaginings of gendered peace. While a considerable knowledge base that explores the gendered discourses of NAPs on WPS already exists, a key gap in the literature -that has only more recently begun to be explored with greater rigor-is the bridging of queer and feminist theories to further push the boundaries of discursive policy analysis. Against this backdrop, feminist critical discourse analysis (CDA) was applied to the NAP case study to surface dominant and counter-discourses on gender and their possible inclusionary/exclusionary effects. Key findings centre the potential value of policy discourses which, in their fragmentation, ruptures, continuities and ambivalences, can facilitate opportunities for queer peace at the instrumental level and beyond. Keywords | discourse analysis; gender; NAPs; peace and security; queer feminist perspectives; South Africa; women Paz con género: un análisis feminista queer del Plan Nacional de Acción sobre Mujeres, Paz y Seguridad de Sudáfrica (2020)(2021)(2022)(2023)(2024)(2025) Resumen | Este artículo de investigación presenta un análisis feminista queer de los discursos de género del Plan Nacional de Acción (PNA) sobre Mujeres, Paz y Seguridad (MPS) de Sudáfrica (2020-2025). Se basa en un amplio campo académico sobre MPS y usa el estudio de caso del PNA de Sudáfrica para ilustrar cómo se pueden emplear las políticas para aprovechar el lenguaje crítico de género y crear posibilidades para (re)imaginar radicalmente la paz de género. Si bien ya existe una base de conocimiento considerable que explora los discursos de género de los PNA sobre MPS, una brecha importante en la literatura -que solo se ha empezado a explorar con mayor rigor recientemente-es el de la unión de las teorías queer y feministas para ampliar todavía más el alcance del análisis discursivo de políticas. En este contexto, se aplicó un análisis crítico del discurso (ACD) feminista al estudio de caso del PNA para sacar a la luz los discursos dominantes y los contradiscursos sobre género, así como sus posibles efectos incluyentes/excluyentes.

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On the necessity of critical race feminism for women, peace and security

Cited by 26 publications

References 26 publications

A false peace: Bringing racism and race into peace scholarship in the metropole.

A false peace: Bringing racism and race into peace scholarship in the metropole.

Transgressing to teach: Theorising race and security through struggle

Paz con género: un análisis feminista queer del Plan Nacional de Acción sobre Mujeres, Paz y Seguridad de Sudáfrica (2020-2025)

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