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Reconceptualizing gender, reinscribing racial-sexual boundaries in international security : the case of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on "Women, Peace and Security"
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Pratt, Nicola Christine. (2013) Reconceptualizing gender, reinscribing racial-sexual boundaries in international security : the case of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on "Women, Peace and Security". International Studies Quarterly . ISSN 1468-2478 (In Press)
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/isqu.12032
Abstract
The gendered boundaries of international security, historically identified by feminist scholarship, are being broken down since the passage of UN Security Council Resolution 1325, which calls on member states to mainstream a gender perspective into matters of conflict and peacebuilding. However, we should not read this as a positive step toward the transformation of the lives of women (and men) in conflict zones. Reading 1325 and subsequent resolutions through a postcolonial feminist lens reveals that this reconceptualization of gender occurs through a reinscription of racial–sexual boundaries, evocative of the political economy of imperialism. An examination of the discourses and practices of the “war on terror” exposes a similar configuration of gender, race, and sexuality. I argue that 1325 works in tandem with dominant security practices and discourses in the post-9/11 moment, normalizing the violence of counterterrorism and counterinsurgency measures. Understanding the significance of race and sexuality in the conceptualization of gender has implications for transnational feminist praxis and its ability to construct a counter-hegemonic project to transform the dominant structures of power that give rise to war, conflict, insecurity, and injustice.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies |
| Journal or Publication Title: | International Studies Quarterly |
| Publisher: | Wiley |
| ISSN: | 1468-2478 |
| Date: | 19 February 2013 |
| Identification Number: | 10.1111/isqu.12032 |
| Status: | Peer Reviewed |
| Publication Status: | In Press |
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
| URI: | http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/51074 |
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