Saskia Stachowitsch
Biographic Data
| ID | 325061 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Saskia Stachowitsch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Saskia |
| FAMILY NAME | Stachowitsch |
| SIGNATURE | STACHOWITSCH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Vienna |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2402-5141 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 106 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Preserving and progressing
After all-male universal conscription had been deactivated in many European countries in the post-Cold War era, the past decade has seen a surprising reversal of this trend, with several countries reactivating, voting to retain, or even extending military conscription to women. Due to the strong historical link between conscription and the formation of hierarchical gender orders, this paper conducts a feminist analysis of debates on conscription …
Preserving and progressing
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Entangled Vulnerabilities
The notion of vulnerability is gaining traction in EU border protection. On the one hand, the concept refers to vulnerable migrants and their affectedness by insecurity and violence. On the other, it indicates the susceptibility of borders to irregular crossings and cross-border crime. Both forms of vulnerability are assessed through dedicated procedures under the umbrella of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency Frontex. To make sense of th…
The (inter)visual politics of border security
Visuals, including photographs and data visualizations, play a crucial role in the politics of EU border security, both as an internal governance tool (e.g. in surveillance) and as an external means of communication/representation (e.g. in photojournalism). Combining scholarship on photographic representations of migration with literature on surveillance technologies and data visualizations, we argue that these visuals interact to reproduce gende…
Gender, race, and crisis-driven institutional growth
Migration movements at the EU external borders are increasingly understood and governed through a logic of crisis that draws on gendered and racialised stereotypes of migrants and colonial Self- ‘Other’ representations. These narratives of ‘migration crisis’ not only shape public discourse, but also inform institutional processes within the EU border security architecture, particularly the growth of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Fro…
Beyond “Market” and “State” Feminism
This article assesses the implications of the shifting market-state relationship for feminism in the neoliberal era. In a case study of the private military and security industry as an actor that is uniquely positioned at the intersections of security governance and global markets, the analysis combines feminist security studies’ critique of securitized gender discourses and feminist global political economy scholarship on corporate-led equality …
The gendered and racialized politics of risk analysis. The case of Frontex
This article develops a feminist postcolonial approach to risk analysis as an increasingly central security practice in the EU's emerging border management and security regime. For this purpose, we theorize risk analysis as a sense-making practice embedded within colonial power relations. As such, risk analysis problematizes migrants and migration in gendered and racialized ways that make them amenable to border management and other, potentially …
Jüdische Identitäten und antisemitische Politiken im österreichischen Parlament 1861-1933
Dieses Buch widmet sich der Beteiligung von Jüdinnen und Juden an der Entwicklung des österreichischen Parlamentarismus sowie ihren Konfrontationen mit Antisemitismus als Strategie parlamentarischer Politik. Das vielfältige Wirken jüdischer ParlamentarierInnen in Abgeordnetenhaus und Herrenhaus des Reichsrats sowie im Nationalrat der Ersten Republik wird anhand einer Kollektivbiographie und einer Analyse von Parlamentsdebatten sichtbar gemacht. D…
(Re)integrating Feminist Security Studies and Feminist Global Political Economy
Considerations to integrate feminist security studies (FSS) and global political economy (GPE) were first systematically reflected in the Critical Perspectives section of the June 2015 issue of this journal. That collection presented engaging essays on how the divide between the two fields has evolved and ways we can seek to overcome it—or, indeed, whether we should attempt to bridge the divide. This debate has gained momentum in workshops and co…
Everyday Matters in Global Private Security Supply Chains
In a case study of Nepalese Gurkhas working for Western private military and security companies (PMSCs), this article develops feminist global political economy understandings of global labour chains by exploring how the ‘global market’ and the ‘everyday’ interact in establishing private security as a gendered and racialised project. Current understandings of PMSCs, and global markets at large, tend to depoliticise these global and everyday inter…
The Reconstruction of Masculinities in Global Politics
The concept of masculinities has been central to the analysis of private security as a gendered phenomenon. This research has either focused on the identity constructions and practices of security contractors as men or on masculinity as a theoretical and ideological framework for making sense of security outsourcing. This article aims to overcome this dualism by developing a relational, strategic, and discursive understanding of masculinities and…
Military Privatization and the Remasculinization of the State
This article examines the gendered implications of military privatization and argues that the outsourcing of military functions to the private sector excludes women from newly developing private military labour markets, impedes gender equality policies and reconstructs masculinist gender ideologies. This process constitutes a remasculinization of the state, in the course of which the nexus between state-sanctioned violence and masculinity is bein…
Professional Soldier, Weak Victim, Patriotic Heroine
Discourses on military gender integration in the US are shaped by various groups of social actors who promote different gender ideologies according to their varying interests in the process of military restructuring. Different branches of the Armed Forces, politicians, NGOs and lobbyists argue for or against integration by utilizing different images of military masculinity and femininity. Depending on social and military conditions, female soldie…
Military gender integration and foreign policy in the United States
The article investigates the relevance of foreign policy discourse and practice for military gender relations. The link between women’s status in military institutions and the gendering of foreign policy has so far not been thoroughly addressed in military and gender research or foreign policy analysis. Feminist international relations provides a research strategy to show how foreign policy doctrines and debates are gendered and how they are conn…
The gendered and racialized politics of risk analysis. The case of Frontex
This article develops a feminist postcolonial approach to risk analysis as an increasingly central security practice in the EU's emerging border management and security regime. For this purpose, we theorize risk analysis as a sense-making practice embedded within colonial power relations. As such, risk analysis problematizes migrants and migration in gendered and racialized ways that make them amenable to border management and other, potentially …
Gender, race, and crisis-driven institutional growth
Migration movements at the EU external borders are increasingly understood and governed through a logic of crisis that draws on gendered and racialised stereotypes of migrants and colonial Self- ‘Other’ representations. These narratives of ‘migration crisis’ not only shape public discourse, but also inform institutional processes within the EU border security architecture, particularly the growth of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Fro…
(Re)integrating Feminist Security Studies and Feminist Global Political Economy
Considerations to integrate feminist security studies (FSS) and global political economy (GPE) were first systematically reflected in the Critical Perspectives section of the June 2015 issue of this journal. That collection presented engaging essays on how the divide between the two fields has evolved and ways we can seek to overcome it—or, indeed, whether we should attempt to bridge the divide. This debate has gained momentum in workshops and co…
Military Privatization and the Remasculinization of the State
This article examines the gendered implications of military privatization and argues that the outsourcing of military functions to the private sector excludes women from newly developing private military labour markets, impedes gender equality policies and reconstructs masculinist gender ideologies. This process constitutes a remasculinization of the state, in the course of which the nexus between state-sanctioned violence and masculinity is bein…
Everyday Matters in Global Private Security Supply Chains
In a case study of Nepalese Gurkhas working for Western private military and security companies (PMSCs), this article develops feminist global political economy understandings of global labour chains by exploring how the ‘global market’ and the ‘everyday’ interact in establishing private security as a gendered and racialised project. Current understandings of PMSCs, and global markets at large, tend to depoliticise these global and everyday inter…
Professional Soldier, Weak Victim, Patriotic Heroine
Discourses on military gender integration in the US are shaped by various groups of social actors who promote different gender ideologies according to their varying interests in the process of military restructuring. Different branches of the Armed Forces, politicians, NGOs and lobbyists argue for or against integration by utilizing different images of military masculinity and femininity. Depending on social and military conditions, female soldie…
The Reconstruction of Masculinities in Global Politics
The concept of masculinities has been central to the analysis of private security as a gendered phenomenon. This research has either focused on the identity constructions and practices of security contractors as men or on masculinity as a theoretical and ideological framework for making sense of security outsourcing. This article aims to overcome this dualism by developing a relational, strategic, and discursive understanding of masculinities and…
Beyond “Market” and “State” Feminism
This article assesses the implications of the shifting market-state relationship for feminism in the neoliberal era. In a case study of the private military and security industry as an actor that is uniquely positioned at the intersections of security governance and global markets, the analysis combines feminist security studies’ critique of securitized gender discourses and feminist global political economy scholarship on corporate-led equality …
Military gender integration and foreign policy in the United States
The article investigates the relevance of foreign policy discourse and practice for military gender relations. The link between women’s status in military institutions and the gendering of foreign policy has so far not been thoroughly addressed in military and gender research or foreign policy analysis. Feminist international relations provides a research strategy to show how foreign policy doctrines and debates are gendered and how they are conn…
Preserving and progressing
After all-male universal conscription had been deactivated in many European countries in the post-Cold War era, the past decade has seen a surprising reversal of this trend, with several countries reactivating, voting to retain, or even extending military conscription to women. Due to the strong historical link between conscription and the formation of hierarchical gender orders, this paper conducts a feminist analysis of debates on conscription …
Entangled Vulnerabilities
The notion of vulnerability is gaining traction in EU border protection. On the one hand, the concept refers to vulnerable migrants and their affectedness by insecurity and violence. On the other, it indicates the susceptibility of borders to irregular crossings and cross-border crime. Both forms of vulnerability are assessed through dedicated procedures under the umbrella of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency Frontex. To make sense of th…
The (inter)visual politics of border security
Visuals, including photographs and data visualizations, play a crucial role in the politics of EU border security, both as an internal governance tool (e.g. in surveillance) and as an external means of communication/representation (e.g. in photojournalism). Combining scholarship on photographic representations of migration with literature on surveillance technologies and data visualizations, we argue that these visuals interact to reproduce gende…
Professional Soldier, Weak Victim, Patriotic Heroine
Discourses on military gender integration in the US are shaped by various groups of social actors who promote different gender ideologies according to their varying interests in the process of military restructuring. Different branches of the Armed Forces, politicians, NGOs and lobbyists argue for or against integration by utilizing different images of military masculinity and femininity. Depending on social and military conditions, female soldie…
Military gender integration and foreign policy in the United States
The article investigates the relevance of foreign policy discourse and practice for military gender relations. The link between women’s status in military institutions and the gendering of foreign policy has so far not been thoroughly addressed in military and gender research or foreign policy analysis. Feminist international relations provides a research strategy to show how foreign policy doctrines and debates are gendered and how they are conn…
Military Privatization and the Remasculinization of the State
This article examines the gendered implications of military privatization and argues that the outsourcing of military functions to the private sector excludes women from newly developing private military labour markets, impedes gender equality policies and reconstructs masculinist gender ideologies. This process constitutes a remasculinization of the state, in the course of which the nexus between state-sanctioned violence and masculinity is bein…
The Reconstruction of Masculinities in Global Politics
The concept of masculinities has been central to the analysis of private security as a gendered phenomenon. This research has either focused on the identity constructions and practices of security contractors as men or on masculinity as a theoretical and ideological framework for making sense of security outsourcing. This article aims to overcome this dualism by developing a relational, strategic, and discursive understanding of masculinities and…
Everyday Matters in Global Private Security Supply Chains
In a case study of Nepalese Gurkhas working for Western private military and security companies (PMSCs), this article develops feminist global political economy understandings of global labour chains by exploring how the ‘global market’ and the ‘everyday’ interact in establishing private security as a gendered and racialised project. Current understandings of PMSCs, and global markets at large, tend to depoliticise these global and everyday inter…
Jüdische Identitäten und antisemitische Politiken im österreichischen Parlament 1861-1933
Dieses Buch widmet sich der Beteiligung von Jüdinnen und Juden an der Entwicklung des österreichischen Parlamentarismus sowie ihren Konfrontationen mit Antisemitismus als Strategie parlamentarischer Politik. Das vielfältige Wirken jüdischer ParlamentarierInnen in Abgeordnetenhaus und Herrenhaus des Reichsrats sowie im Nationalrat der Ersten Republik wird anhand einer Kollektivbiographie und einer Analyse von Parlamentsdebatten sichtbar gemacht. D…
(Re)integrating Feminist Security Studies and Feminist Global Political Economy
Considerations to integrate feminist security studies (FSS) and global political economy (GPE) were first systematically reflected in the Critical Perspectives section of the June 2015 issue of this journal. That collection presented engaging essays on how the divide between the two fields has evolved and ways we can seek to overcome it—or, indeed, whether we should attempt to bridge the divide. This debate has gained momentum in workshops and co…
Beyond “Market” and “State” Feminism
This article assesses the implications of the shifting market-state relationship for feminism in the neoliberal era. In a case study of the private military and security industry as an actor that is uniquely positioned at the intersections of security governance and global markets, the analysis combines feminist security studies’ critique of securitized gender discourses and feminist global political economy scholarship on corporate-led equality …
The gendered and racialized politics of risk analysis. The case of Frontex
This article develops a feminist postcolonial approach to risk analysis as an increasingly central security practice in the EU's emerging border management and security regime. For this purpose, we theorize risk analysis as a sense-making practice embedded within colonial power relations. As such, risk analysis problematizes migrants and migration in gendered and racialized ways that make them amenable to border management and other, potentially …
Gender, race, and crisis-driven institutional growth
Migration movements at the EU external borders are increasingly understood and governed through a logic of crisis that draws on gendered and racialised stereotypes of migrants and colonial Self- ‘Other’ representations. These narratives of ‘migration crisis’ not only shape public discourse, but also inform institutional processes within the EU border security architecture, particularly the growth of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Fro…
The (inter)visual politics of border security
Visuals, including photographs and data visualizations, play a crucial role in the politics of EU border security, both as an internal governance tool (e.g. in surveillance) and as an external means of communication/representation (e.g. in photojournalism). Combining scholarship on photographic representations of migration with literature on surveillance technologies and data visualizations, we argue that these visuals interact to reproduce gende…
Preserving and progressing
After all-male universal conscription had been deactivated in many European countries in the post-Cold War era, the past decade has seen a surprising reversal of this trend, with several countries reactivating, voting to retain, or even extending military conscription to women. Due to the strong historical link between conscription and the formation of hierarchical gender orders, this paper conducts a feminist analysis of debates on conscription …
Preserving and progressing
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the 'Save PDF' action button
Entangled Vulnerabilities
The notion of vulnerability is gaining traction in EU border protection. On the one hand, the concept refers to vulnerable migrants and their affectedness by insecurity and violence. On the other, it indicates the susceptibility of borders to irregular crossings and cross-border crime. Both forms of vulnerability are assessed through dedicated procedures under the umbrella of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency Frontex. To make sense of th…
Political science (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (11 works) · Politics (10 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Global Security and Public Health (5 works)