Gendering the New Security Paradigm in Sri Lanka

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11470931
AutoresNeloufer De Mel (University of Colombo, autor de correspondencia)
Año2009
Volumen40
Número2
Páginas36-43
Fecha de publicación2009-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaIDS Bulletin (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0265-5012 • E-ISSN: 1759-5436
EditorialInstitute of Development Studies (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1759-5436.2009.00020.x
OpenAlexW2066598268
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas13

This article points to the significant military turn that has taken place in Sri Lanka following the armed conflict between the Sri Lanka government forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). It is particularly concerned with the impacts on gender relations and how the lines between women's insecurity and militarised masculinity have been redrawn and reinforced. It argues that these gender relations can be seen in sharp relief in the country's Free Trade Zones, where young rural women in the garment industry and young rural men who join the military meet, and where features of transnational labour, violence against women, law and the state combine to reinforce globalisation and militarisation as the twin rationalities upon which national security regimes and the global order rest today. The article discusses resistances to this paradigm, and assesses their successes and failures in the context of how security is currently marketed as a public good and militarism as a path to the ‘good life’. It concludes by pointing to how these constructions have elicited consent on the part of a significant segment of Sri Lankan society to the militarisation of its society as a whole

Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Globalization · Masculinity · Militarism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Tamil · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security