Gender and private security in global politics / edited by Maya Eichler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eichler, Maya, 1974- editor.

Series:

Oxford studies in gender and international relations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Private security services.

Women soldiers.

Military policy--Moral and ethical aspects.

Military policy.

International relations.

Physical Description:

xvi, 286 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]

Summary:

"For two hundred years the provision of military security has been a central and defining function of the modern nation-state. The increasing reliance on private military and security companies in contemporary conflict marks a fundamental transformation in the organization of military violence, and it raises issues of accountability and ethics that are of particular concern to feminists. This privatization of force not only enables states to circumvent citizens' democratic control over questions of war and peace, but also undermines women's and minority groups' claims for greater inclusion in the military sphere. Gender and Private Security in Global Politics brings together key scholars from the fields of international relations, security studies, and gender studies to argue that privatization of military security is a deeply gendered process. The chapters employ a variety of feminist perspectives, including critical, postcolonial, poststructuralist, and queer feminist perspectives, as well as a wide range of methodological approaches including ethnography, participant-observation, genealogy, and discourse analysis. This is the first book to develop an extended feminist analysis of private militaries and to draw on feminist concerns regarding power, justice and equality to consider how to reform and regulate private forces"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

List of Acronyms

Gender and the Privatization of Military Security: An Introduction

Maya Eichler

Part One: Beyond the Public/Private Divide: Feminist Analyses of Military Privatization and the Gendered State

Chapter 1: Military Privatization as a Gendered Process: A Case for Integrating Feminist International Relations and Feminist State Theories

Saskia Stachowitsch

Chapter 2: Military Privatization and the Gendered Politics of Sacrifice

Bianca Baggiarini

Chapter 3: Gender, PMSCs, and the Global Rescaling of Protection: Implications for Feminist Security Studies

Part Two: Rethinking the Private Military Contractor I: Third Country Nationals and the Making of Empire

Chapter 4: (Re)Producing American Soldiers in An Age of Empire

Isabelle V. Barker

Chapter 5: From Warriors of Empire to Martial Contractors: Reimagining Gurkhas in Private Security

Amanda Chisholm

Chapter 6: The License to Exploit: PMSCs, Masculinities, and Third Country Nationals

Jutta Joachim and Andrea Schneiker

Part Three: Rethinking the Private Military Contractor II: Masculinities and Violence

Chapter 7: Aversions to Masculine Excess in the Private Military and Security Company and their Effects: Don't Be a "Billy Big Bollocks" and Beware the "Ninja!"

Paul Higate

Chapter 8: Heternormative and Penile Frustrations: The Uneasy Discourse of the Armorgroup Hazing Scandal

Chris Hendershot

Part Four: Private In/Security: Gendered Problems of Accountability, Regulation, and Ethics

Chapter 9: Engendering Accountability in Private Security and Public Peacekeeping

Valerie Sperling

Chapter 10: Women and PMSCs: International Law and Regulation

Ana Filipa Vrdoljak

Chapter 11: Responsibility, Empathy, and the Morality of Mercenaries: A Feminist Ethical Appraisal of PMSCs

Jillian Terry

Conclusion

Afterword

Anna Leander

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199364374

0199364370

9780199364381

0199364389

OCLC:

894139939