Personal-Political Imaginations: Feminism, Gender and Security in Serbia
To understand how particular meanings of ‘gender security’ come about, it’s necessary to pay attention to personal-political imaginations of conflict and post-conflict.
LGBT Pride: Marching on the Front Lines
Pride events remain a critical moment of visibility of the LGBT movement. But the global movement will continue to progress and create new alliances for gaining equality.
Sexual Abuse and Sexual Exploitation in Conflict Situations as a Security Risk
Child abuse should be declared a collective security problem. The widespread nature of child abuse in UN missions requires appropriate response from the Security Council.
Review – Sexing War/Policing Gender
Åhäll’s volume explores cultural representations of female political agency and female political violence through the metanarrative of motherhood.
The Militarized Gym
Militarized determinations of physical exercise means to appreciate how Anglo pursuits of leisure and health cannot at all be assumed to be globally healthy or leisurely.
What You Say is What You Get: The Gender Problem in IR
Replacing “man-made” with “anthropogenic” will not solve the gender problem in IR, but it will increase the visibility of our quotidian contributions to patriarchy.
Queering Paradigms: From Individual Resistance to Global-Local Impact
Performative scholarship as activism promises further advances in Social Justice. Ethically, there is no ‘mere criticality’; there is always also societal responsibility.
Women’s Empowerment and Atrocities Prevention
As review conferences are approaching, now is time to ask how leveraging linkages between the agendas might contribute toward enhancing capacity for conflict prevention.
The Peloponnesian War and Killer Robots: Norms of Protection in Security Policy
We need not be grateful for the ‘protection’ of killer robots; we may instead mimic Lysistrata and humanize the very structure of protection in the 21st century.
Review – Women and Militant Wars: The Politics of Injury
Despite some imprecisions, Parashar’s insightful case studies highlight an under-discussed topic: the politics of militant women and the gendered understanding of war.
