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Not a care in the world : an exploration of the personal-professional-political nexus of international development practitioners working in justice and security sector reform

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Jones, Briony and Gordon, Eleanor (2021) Not a care in the world : an exploration of the personal-professional-political nexus of international development practitioners working in justice and security sector reform. International Feminist Journal of Politics . doi:10.1080/14616742.2021.1894207 (In Press)

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This paper explores the implications for international development policy and practice - specifically within the sectors of building security and justice after conflict - of the departure of those assuming caring roles, predominantly women who become mothers. More broadly, this paper explores how personal life stories impact the choices we make in our professional lives, including where, when and how we engage, in this instance, in international development, and the subsequent implications for the field. These choices (the personal) have an impact on policy and practice (the professional), and inform how knowledge is created, circulated, legitimised and becomes expert knowledge (the political). This paper thus explores the implications of an epistemic community being predominantly male (in part as a consequence of the lack of support for social reproductive work) on how security and justice in post-conflict environments are conceived and, ultimately, rebuilt. The authors reflect upon their engagement in conflict-affected environments – as scholars and former practitioners – and draw from life stories of international development practitioners to investigate the personal-professional-political nexus and the impact of narrow epistemic communities on how ‘security work’ is done, whose security matters, whose voices count.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: U Military Science > U Military Science (General)
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Security sector, Rule of law, Peace-building -- International cooperation, Nation-building, Economic development
Journal or Publication Title: International Feminist Journal of Politics
Publisher: Routledge
ISSN: 1461-6742
Official Date: 10 March 2021
Dates:
DateEvent
10 March 2021Available
13 September 2020Accepted
Date of first compliant deposit: 22 September 2020
DOI: 10.1080/14616742.2021.1894207
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: In Press
Publisher Statement: This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in International Feminist Journal of Politics on 10 Mar 2021, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14616742.2021.1894207
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
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Project/Grant IDRIOXX Funder NameFunder ID
UNSPECIFIED[SNSF] Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschunghttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001711
IZ07Z0_160867/1Warwick-Monash AllianceUNSPECIFIED
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