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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, 23 (5). pp. 785-808. doi:10.1080/14616742.2021.1894207 ISSN 1461-6742.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2021.1894207
Abstract
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 | |||||||||
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| 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 | |||||||||
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| Volume: | 23 | |||||||||
| Number: | 5 | |||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 785-808 | |||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/14616742.2021.1894207 | |||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | 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 | |||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 22 September 2020 | |||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 10 September 2022 | |||||||||
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