Marsha Giselle Henry
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 357639 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Marsha Giselle Henry |
| NOMBRES | Marsha Giselle |
| APELLIDO | Henry |
| FIRMA | HENRY M G |
| AFILIACIONES | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4225-5437 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 382 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1997 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
On the necessity of critical race feminism for women, peace and security
This intervention is concerned with whiteness as central to the operation of women/gender, peace and security in academic settings. That is, G/WPS in universities is founded on white authority and expertise and consistently orients itself from the privileged viewpoint of the global north. Through two brief examples, I show how the generation of research on G/WPS consistently centres and relies on white starting points, in order to convey the ‘nec…
Drawing on the continuum
Current understandings of why and how gender-based violence continues beyond the end of conflict remain siloed along theoretical and disciplinary lines. Recent scholarship has addressed the neglected structural dimension when examining the incidence and variation of post-conflict gender-based violence. In particular, continuum of violence and feminist political economy perspectives have offered accounts of gender-based violence during and after c…
Why critical military studies needs to smash imperial white supremacist capitalist heteropatriarchy
In my article ‘Problematizing military masculinity, intersectionality and male vulnerability in feminist critical military studies’ (2017), I outline some of the innovations in previous research on
Keeping the peace
This contribution examines who and what constitute peacekeeping, and how this exacerbates gendered and geopolitical inequalities. While the number and distribution of peacekeepers (boots on the ground) is highly dependent upon Global South men and Global North money, peacekeeping appears to be more gender-friendly and truly globally representative. Despite significant transformations in the nature of peacekeeping operations, it appears that many …
Between Fatigue and Silence
This paper discusses the meanings of research fatigue and silences in conflictrelated sexual violence research. Drawing on field experiences in Liberia, Tanzania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Peru, we discuss some of the unintended consequences of persistent focus on victim-survivors' narratives and argue for a reflexive feminist perspective that allows us to question the need and context of interviewing survivors and the associated insistence on …
Gender and Peacekeeping
This chapter examines three manifestations of gender in peacekeeping: the gender of those serving as peacekeepers; gendered hierarchies within peacekeeping missions; and the gendered discourse used by the United Nations when discussing women peacekeepers. The chapter provides statistics on the numbers of female peacekeepers historically and by assignment. Using the concept of hegemonic masculinity, the chapter explores how protection masculinity …
Problematizing military masculinity, intersectionality and male vulnerability in feminist critical military studies
Recent work on the multiplicity of masculinities within specific military contexts deploys the concept of intersectionality in order to draw attention to the hierarchies present in military organizations or to acknowledge male vulnerability in situations of war and conflict. While it is important to examine the breadth and depth of masculinity as an ideology and practice of domination, it is also important for discussions of military masculinity,…
Militarisation as diffusion
Drawing together the work of five feminist scholars whose research spans diverse sociopolitical contexts, this themed section questions militarisation as a fixed condition. Using feminist methodologies to explore the spatialised networks and social mechanisms through which militarisation is sustained and resisted, ‘gendering’ militarisation reveals a complex politics of diffusion at work in a range of everyday power relations. However, diffusion …
Militarisation as diffusion
Parades, Parties and Pests
Based on research studies conducted in the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia in 2006, 2012 and 2013, this article argues that peacekeepers’ everyday experiences reflect a series of contradictory identities and performances with regard to nation, work and gender. Peacekeepers straddle paradoxical worlds simultaneously and manage oppositional demands and obligations, although it is often assumed that they inhabit peacekeeping economies in homogeno…
The Sage Handbook of Feminist Theory
Introduction - Mary Evans PART ONE: EPISTEMOLOGY AND MARGINALITY Introduction - Sumi Madhok & Mary Evans Feminist Epistemology And The Politics Of Knowledge: Questions Of Marginality - Lorraine Code Natural Others? On Nature, Culture, and Knowledge - Astrida Neimanis Feminist Auto/Biography - Gayle Letherby Power in Feminist Research Processes - Sabine Grenz Women's Lived Experience: Feminism and Phenomenology from Simone de Beauvoir to the Prese…
Peacexploitation? Interrogating Labor Hierarchies and Global Sisterhood Among Indian and Uruguayan Female Peacekeepers
As a result of UNSCR 1325, the UN has been eager to decrease incidents of sexual exploitation and abuse in peacekeeping operations, improve local women's security, and balance out the number of women and men in the police and military at both local and international levels. As peacekeeping missions begin to include more female peacekeepers, questions are raised about what this means for women in national militaries, local women in peacekeeping mi…
Rethinking Masculinity and Practices of Violence in Conflict Settings
An introduction to a special issue of International Feminist Journal of Politics, co-edited with Marsha Henry
Space, Performance and Everyday Security in the Peacekeeping Context
Studies of peacekeeping have helped to reveal the complexities, dilemmas and challenges of operations since their inception, and almost certainly into the future. Yet, despite the empirical and theoretical breadth of this canon, the field continues to be dominated by political science, development studies, international law and military studies, whose scholars tend to draw on ‘problem-solving’, macro-level and positivist perspectives in their wri…
Positionality and Power
Despite a growth in social studies of peacekeeping, there has been little written on field experiences in such contexts. This article examines the role of the researcher in influencing the research process and product in two peacekeeping sites, Liberia and Kosovo. Although researchers are often positioned in powerful ways vis-à-vis researchees, the multiplicity and complexity of their positionality are often overlooked. By drawing on examples fro…
If the shoe fits
Gender, security and development
This paper examines the links amongst the concepts of gender, security and development. In particular, it seeks to examine how each of the concepts can be critically understood independently and as interrelated. Through understanding each of these concepts as socially and discursively constructed, contingent and fluid, the paper examines the consequences of such a theoretical framework for key issues facing gender, security and development practi…
Engendering (In)security in Peace Support Operations
This article contributes towards ongoing debates on gender, security and post-conflict studies. Its focus is on the activities of male peace-keepers and their gendered relations with women and girls. Against the backdrop of the peacekeeping economies in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sierra Leone, we focus on the consequencesof male peacekeepers’ construction and enactment of masculinity (and masculinities) on the security of local women. W…
Reassessing the research relationship
In this article we problematize the dualistic and binary model of researcher/researched interaction in the feminist methodological literature, which suggests that manipulation and exploitation only take place by the researcher. We contest assumptions that research participants occupy only one axis of identity, namely, 'oppressed victimhood'. Through our position as non-white/non-western and nonwhite/western researchers in a non-western research s…
Where are you Really from
Feminist accounts of fieldwork have often been concerned with issues of representation, both of the researched and the researcher, exposing some of the complications that arise when the researcher must make critical decisions about representing herself to her research participants. These accounts demonstrate that a fieldworker's identity does in fact impact upon the research process and product, challenging notions of researcher objectivity and n…
Im/partial science
Reassessing the research relationship
In this article we problematize the dualistic and binary model of researcher/researched interaction in the feminist methodological literature, which suggests that manipulation and exploitation only take place by the researcher. We contest assumptions that research participants occupy only one axis of identity, namely, 'oppressed victimhood'. Through our position as non-white/non-western and nonwhite/western researchers in a non-western research s…
Engendering (In)security in Peace Support Operations
This article contributes towards ongoing debates on gender, security and post-conflict studies. Its focus is on the activities of male peace-keepers and their gendered relations with women and girls. Against the backdrop of the peacekeeping economies in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sierra Leone, we focus on the consequencesof male peacekeepers’ construction and enactment of masculinity (and masculinities) on the security of local women. W…
Problematizing military masculinity, intersectionality and male vulnerability in feminist critical military studies
Recent work on the multiplicity of masculinities within specific military contexts deploys the concept of intersectionality in order to draw attention to the hierarchies present in military organizations or to acknowledge male vulnerability in situations of war and conflict. While it is important to examine the breadth and depth of masculinity as an ideology and practice of domination, it is also important for discussions of military masculinity,…
Positionality and Power
Despite a growth in social studies of peacekeeping, there has been little written on field experiences in such contexts. This article examines the role of the researcher in influencing the research process and product in two peacekeeping sites, Liberia and Kosovo. Although researchers are often positioned in powerful ways vis-à-vis researchees, the multiplicity and complexity of their positionality are often overlooked. By drawing on examples fro…
Space, Performance and Everyday Security in the Peacekeeping Context
Studies of peacekeeping have helped to reveal the complexities, dilemmas and challenges of operations since their inception, and almost certainly into the future. Yet, despite the empirical and theoretical breadth of this canon, the field continues to be dominated by political science, development studies, international law and military studies, whose scholars tend to draw on ‘problem-solving’, macro-level and positivist perspectives in their wri…
Rethinking Masculinity and Practices of Violence in Conflict Settings
An introduction to a special issue of International Feminist Journal of Politics, co-edited with Marsha Henry
Between Fatigue and Silence
This paper discusses the meanings of research fatigue and silences in conflictrelated sexual violence research. Drawing on field experiences in Liberia, Tanzania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Peru, we discuss some of the unintended consequences of persistent focus on victim-survivors' narratives and argue for a reflexive feminist perspective that allows us to question the need and context of interviewing survivors and the associated insistence on …
Where are you Really from
Feminist accounts of fieldwork have often been concerned with issues of representation, both of the researched and the researcher, exposing some of the complications that arise when the researcher must make critical decisions about representing herself to her research participants. These accounts demonstrate that a fieldworker's identity does in fact impact upon the research process and product, challenging notions of researcher objectivity and n…
Parades, Parties and Pests
Based on research studies conducted in the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia in 2006, 2012 and 2013, this article argues that peacekeepers’ everyday experiences reflect a series of contradictory identities and performances with regard to nation, work and gender. Peacekeepers straddle paradoxical worlds simultaneously and manage oppositional demands and obligations, although it is often assumed that they inhabit peacekeeping economies in homogeno…
Peacexploitation? Interrogating Labor Hierarchies and Global Sisterhood Among Indian and Uruguayan Female Peacekeepers
As a result of UNSCR 1325, the UN has been eager to decrease incidents of sexual exploitation and abuse in peacekeeping operations, improve local women's security, and balance out the number of women and men in the police and military at both local and international levels. As peacekeeping missions begin to include more female peacekeepers, questions are raised about what this means for women in national militaries, local women in peacekeeping mi…
On the necessity of critical race feminism for women, peace and security
This intervention is concerned with whiteness as central to the operation of women/gender, peace and security in academic settings. That is, G/WPS in universities is founded on white authority and expertise and consistently orients itself from the privileged viewpoint of the global north. Through two brief examples, I show how the generation of research on G/WPS consistently centres and relies on white starting points, in order to convey the ‘nec…
Drawing on the continuum
Current understandings of why and how gender-based violence continues beyond the end of conflict remain siloed along theoretical and disciplinary lines. Recent scholarship has addressed the neglected structural dimension when examining the incidence and variation of post-conflict gender-based violence. In particular, continuum of violence and feminist political economy perspectives have offered accounts of gender-based violence during and after c…
Militarisation as diffusion
Militarisation as diffusion
Drawing together the work of five feminist scholars whose research spans diverse sociopolitical contexts, this themed section questions militarisation as a fixed condition. Using feminist methodologies to explore the spatialised networks and social mechanisms through which militarisation is sustained and resisted, ‘gendering’ militarisation reveals a complex politics of diffusion at work in a range of everyday power relations. However, diffusion …
If the shoe fits
Why critical military studies needs to smash imperial white supremacist capitalist heteropatriarchy
In my article ‘Problematizing military masculinity, intersectionality and male vulnerability in feminist critical military studies’ (2017), I outline some of the innovations in previous research on
Keeping the peace
This contribution examines who and what constitute peacekeeping, and how this exacerbates gendered and geopolitical inequalities. While the number and distribution of peacekeepers (boots on the ground) is highly dependent upon Global South men and Global North money, peacekeeping appears to be more gender-friendly and truly globally representative. Despite significant transformations in the nature of peacekeeping operations, it appears that many …
Gender, security and development
This paper examines the links amongst the concepts of gender, security and development. In particular, it seeks to examine how each of the concepts can be critically understood independently and as interrelated. Through understanding each of these concepts as socially and discursively constructed, contingent and fluid, the paper examines the consequences of such a theoretical framework for key issues facing gender, security and development practi…
Im/partial science
Where are you Really from
Feminist accounts of fieldwork have often been concerned with issues of representation, both of the researched and the researcher, exposing some of the complications that arise when the researcher must make critical decisions about representing herself to her research participants. These accounts demonstrate that a fieldworker's identity does in fact impact upon the research process and product, challenging notions of researcher objectivity and n…
Engendering (In)security in Peace Support Operations
This article contributes towards ongoing debates on gender, security and post-conflict studies. Its focus is on the activities of male peace-keepers and their gendered relations with women and girls. Against the backdrop of the peacekeeping economies in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Sierra Leone, we focus on the consequencesof male peacekeepers’ construction and enactment of masculinity (and masculinities) on the security of local women. W…
Reassessing the research relationship
In this article we problematize the dualistic and binary model of researcher/researched interaction in the feminist methodological literature, which suggests that manipulation and exploitation only take place by the researcher. We contest assumptions that research participants occupy only one axis of identity, namely, 'oppressed victimhood'. Through our position as non-white/non-western and nonwhite/western researchers in a non-western research s…
If the shoe fits
Gender, security and development
This paper examines the links amongst the concepts of gender, security and development. In particular, it seeks to examine how each of the concepts can be critically understood independently and as interrelated. Through understanding each of these concepts as socially and discursively constructed, contingent and fluid, the paper examines the consequences of such a theoretical framework for key issues facing gender, security and development practi…
Positionality and Power
Despite a growth in social studies of peacekeeping, there has been little written on field experiences in such contexts. This article examines the role of the researcher in influencing the research process and product in two peacekeeping sites, Liberia and Kosovo. Although researchers are often positioned in powerful ways vis-à-vis researchees, the multiplicity and complexity of their positionality are often overlooked. By drawing on examples fro…
Space, Performance and Everyday Security in the Peacekeeping Context
Studies of peacekeeping have helped to reveal the complexities, dilemmas and challenges of operations since their inception, and almost certainly into the future. Yet, despite the empirical and theoretical breadth of this canon, the field continues to be dominated by political science, development studies, international law and military studies, whose scholars tend to draw on ‘problem-solving’, macro-level and positivist perspectives in their wri…
Peacexploitation? Interrogating Labor Hierarchies and Global Sisterhood Among Indian and Uruguayan Female Peacekeepers
As a result of UNSCR 1325, the UN has been eager to decrease incidents of sexual exploitation and abuse in peacekeeping operations, improve local women's security, and balance out the number of women and men in the police and military at both local and international levels. As peacekeeping missions begin to include more female peacekeepers, questions are raised about what this means for women in national militaries, local women in peacekeeping mi…
Rethinking Masculinity and Practices of Violence in Conflict Settings
An introduction to a special issue of International Feminist Journal of Politics, co-edited with Marsha Henry
The Sage Handbook of Feminist Theory
Introduction - Mary Evans PART ONE: EPISTEMOLOGY AND MARGINALITY Introduction - Sumi Madhok & Mary Evans Feminist Epistemology And The Politics Of Knowledge: Questions Of Marginality - Lorraine Code Natural Others? On Nature, Culture, and Knowledge - Astrida Neimanis Feminist Auto/Biography - Gayle Letherby Power in Feminist Research Processes - Sabine Grenz Women's Lived Experience: Feminism and Phenomenology from Simone de Beauvoir to the Prese…
Parades, Parties and Pests
Based on research studies conducted in the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia in 2006, 2012 and 2013, this article argues that peacekeepers’ everyday experiences reflect a series of contradictory identities and performances with regard to nation, work and gender. Peacekeepers straddle paradoxical worlds simultaneously and manage oppositional demands and obligations, although it is often assumed that they inhabit peacekeeping economies in homogeno…
Militarisation as diffusion
Drawing together the work of five feminist scholars whose research spans diverse sociopolitical contexts, this themed section questions militarisation as a fixed condition. Using feminist methodologies to explore the spatialised networks and social mechanisms through which militarisation is sustained and resisted, ‘gendering’ militarisation reveals a complex politics of diffusion at work in a range of everyday power relations. However, diffusion …
Militarisation as diffusion
Gender and Peacekeeping
This chapter examines three manifestations of gender in peacekeeping: the gender of those serving as peacekeepers; gendered hierarchies within peacekeeping missions; and the gendered discourse used by the United Nations when discussing women peacekeepers. The chapter provides statistics on the numbers of female peacekeepers historically and by assignment. Using the concept of hegemonic masculinity, the chapter explores how protection masculinity …
Problematizing military masculinity, intersectionality and male vulnerability in feminist critical military studies
Recent work on the multiplicity of masculinities within specific military contexts deploys the concept of intersectionality in order to draw attention to the hierarchies present in military organizations or to acknowledge male vulnerability in situations of war and conflict. While it is important to examine the breadth and depth of masculinity as an ideology and practice of domination, it is also important for discussions of military masculinity,…
Between Fatigue and Silence
This paper discusses the meanings of research fatigue and silences in conflictrelated sexual violence research. Drawing on field experiences in Liberia, Tanzania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Peru, we discuss some of the unintended consequences of persistent focus on victim-survivors' narratives and argue for a reflexive feminist perspective that allows us to question the need and context of interviewing survivors and the associated insistence on …
Keeping the peace
This contribution examines who and what constitute peacekeeping, and how this exacerbates gendered and geopolitical inequalities. While the number and distribution of peacekeepers (boots on the ground) is highly dependent upon Global South men and Global North money, peacekeeping appears to be more gender-friendly and truly globally representative. Despite significant transformations in the nature of peacekeeping operations, it appears that many …
Drawing on the continuum
Current understandings of why and how gender-based violence continues beyond the end of conflict remain siloed along theoretical and disciplinary lines. Recent scholarship has addressed the neglected structural dimension when examining the incidence and variation of post-conflict gender-based violence. In particular, continuum of violence and feminist political economy perspectives have offered accounts of gender-based violence during and after c…
Why critical military studies needs to smash imperial white supremacist capitalist heteropatriarchy
In my article ‘Problematizing military masculinity, intersectionality and male vulnerability in feminist critical military studies’ (2017), I outline some of the innovations in previous research on
On the necessity of critical race feminism for women, peace and security
This intervention is concerned with whiteness as central to the operation of women/gender, peace and security in academic settings. That is, G/WPS in universities is founded on white authority and expertise and consistently orients itself from the privileged viewpoint of the global north. Through two brief examples, I show how the generation of research on G/WPS consistently centres and relies on white starting points, in order to convey the ‘nec…
Sociology (18 obras) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (15 obras) · Political science (15 obras) · Gender Studies (11 obras) · Law (11 obras) · Politics (10 obras) · Gender Studies (9 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Peacebuilding and International Security (8 obras) · Peacekeeping (7 obras)