Seeing' the Women, Peace and Security agenda
Visual (re)productions of WPS in UK government national action plans
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3690325 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Columba Achilleos-Sarll (0000-0002-1019-5476, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 96 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1643-1663 |
| Publication date | 2020-11-09 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-5850 • E-ISSN: 1468-2346 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ia/iiaa168 |
| OpenAlex | W3109010519 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 15 |
Examining the visual (re)production of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda through UK national action plans and annual reports to parliament, this article proposes a new direction for WPS research. The visual politics of WPS, which affects both how the agenda is enacted and how it is encountered, has been largely understudied. To date, WPS scholarship has focused predominantly on linguistic modes of communication, neglecting both the visual aspect of WPS communication and the visual politics of WPS. The article argues that, as a vector of power, visuals matter in the agenda's (re)production, and therefore develops a theoretical and methodological framework to study the visual politics of WPS. In presenting the most comprehensive visual analysis of the WPS agenda to date, this article makes three distinct contributions to the literature. Firstly, it offers a theoretical contribution advancing visuality as a vector of power in the reproduction of WPS. Secondly, it proposes a methodological contribution by developing an analytical framework constructed around a visibility spectrum. Thirdly, it provides an empirical contribution through its focus on the UK as an illustrative case of visual reproduction. The visual analysis reveals four subject-positions placed on a visibility spectrum: the (hypervisible) 'agential woman-in-conflict', the (absent presence) of the 'woman-as-victim', the (visibility) of the 'international community', and the (invisibility) of 'men and boys'. The analysis demonstrates that rather than challenging global hierarchies of power, these mutually constituted subjects visually reproduce particular gendered, racialized and colonial logics, further stripping the agenda of its transformative potential
Action (physics) · Collective action · Geography · Government (linguistics) · Invisibility · Linguistics · Parliament · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Scholarship · Sociology · Visibility · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security
Peace from the threshold
Logics of Gender, Peace, and Security
The Art of Rendering Visible
Prevent and post-16 education
Intersectionality and rehabilitation
Logics of empowerment in the women, peace and security agenda
The (inter)visual politics of border security
Between contested narratives and transformative actions
WPS at 25
The (Dis-)Appearance of Race in the United Kingdom’s Institutionalization and Implementation of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda
On the necessity of critical race feminism for women, peace and security
Peace and Conflict in Public Space
Reconceptualizing Advocacy through the Women, Peace and Security Agenda
Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures
Gender and countering violent extremism in Women, Peace and Security national action plans
Women, Peace, and Security
Naming and Shaming
UNSC Resolution 1325 national action plans in Liberia and Sierra Leone
A Hierarchy of Innocence
Race’, Gender and Neoliberalism
Narrating the Women, Peace and Security agenda
The Civil Contract of Photography
Strange Bedfellows
The Global South writes 1325 (too)
Producing Participants
The 'war on terror' and extremism
The missionary position
Disasters, Relief and the Media
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |