Nicole Wegner
Biographic Data
| ID | 358118 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicole Wegner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicole |
| FAMILY NAME | Wegner |
| SIGNATURE | WEGNER N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9534-4820 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Inclusive militarism? Canada's feminist policy-making in security and defence
In this article, we examine how feminist goals inform Canada's security and defence policies. Using an intersectional feminist framework, we outline gender-inclusive strategies in the defence sector, and their limitations. Although important pro-feminist improvements have been made in Canada's security and defence policies, we argue that they are unlikely to translate into structurally transformative outcomes because they are narrowly operational…
Feminist Foreign Policy as a Case of Governance Feminism: Neoliberalism, Militarism, and Women as “Agents of Change
A growing number of Western states are positioning feminism as the path to a more peaceful and prosperous world. In this article, we examine Canada's feminist foreign policy agenda as an instance of governance feminism, whereby the normative commitment to gender equality is pursued by governing women's agency. We conduct a qualitative discursive analysis of eleven key policy documents spanning development, peace, and security and trade, unpacking…
Martial(ling) peace at the war museum: Emotion, desires and representations of the war-peace dichotomy
This article investigates the role of emotions and the conceptual use of peace to justify martial violence. Drawing upon empirical evidence collected at the Canadian War Museum, the article explores how representations of war history present militarized violence as both a threat to, and the solution for, global peace. Building on scholarship in IR and Peace Studies that theorizes the relationship between war and peace, this article puts forward a…
Framing sexual and gender-based violence: Australia Day, nationalism and conservative prime ministerial policy discourse
Grace Tame's 2021 Australian of the Year (AOTY) award directed public attention towards sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), as did Australia Day award recipients Donna Carson in 2004 and Rosie Battie in 2015. We use mixed-method textual analysis of a corpus of prime minister's Australia Day speeches between 1990 and 2021 to show how conservative Liberal Party prime ministers have narrated a discourse of idealised national identity to manage …
Martialling Peace: How the Peacekeeper Myth Legitimises Warfare
This is a not a book about peacekeeping practices. This is a book about storytelling, fantasies and emotional connections to myths about peacekeeping. The book argues that the celebration of peacekeeping as a legitimate and desirable use of military force is expressed through the unproblematised acceptance of militarism. Introducing a novel framework – martial peace – the book offers an in-depth examination of the Canadian Armed Forces missions t…
War Myths and the Normalization of PTSD and Military Suicide: The Military Suicide Equation
Military suicide is an increasing concern for Western militaries. In this article, using a qualitative media analysis, we introduce the military suicide equation as a metanarrative and analytic tool for understanding discourse on military suicides. This metanarrative-overseas service + post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) = suicide-positions military suicide as the consequences of PTSD acquired during overseas military deployment and positions i…
Helpful heroes and the political utility of militarized masculinities
This article was named the winner of the 2019 Enloe Award. The committee commented: This article, which draws upon Enloe’s central ideas on militarized masculinities and enriches/refines the literature by focusing on the “helpful hero” trope utilized to justify the Canadian military intervention in Afghanistan in 2001–2014, is innovative in its framing and methods. The author’s discourse analysis of “helpful heroes” and her broader analysis of “h…
OUP accepted manuscript
This article explores the rituals and rhythms of military commemoration events and the ways these practices reproduce and \nlegitimize militarism. I assess two Canadian war commemorative rituals—the Highway of Heroes gatherings and the Portraits \nof Honour tour—as micro-political sites where the affective dimensions of militarism are reproduced. The article theorizes \nhow emotion and affect are entangled in rhythms of commemorative rituals. Whi…
Militarization in Canada: Myth-Breaking and Image-Making Through Recruitment Campaigns
Despite widely held attachments by Canadians to a national identity and self-perceived role as international peacekeepers, in 2006 the Department of Defence introduced a recruitment campaign intended to "toughen" the image of the Canadian Armed Forces and showcase a more "realistic" perspective of military service. The 2006-2008 "Fight campaign" advertisements symbolized efforts by political and military elites to re-brand the image of the Canadi…
Can we really “forget” militarization? A conversation on Alison Howell’s martial politics
First paragraph: Alison Howell’s (2018) article “Forget ‘Militarization’: Race, Disability and the ‘Martial Politics’ of the Police and of the University” has already generated many rich conversations. With its bold critique of formulaic uses of the term “militarization,” and a call to observe the ways in which everyday life is shaped by martial politics, Howell's contribution especially gave pause to many of us who readily use the concept of mil…
Discursive battlefields: Support(ing) the troops in Canada
Winning hearts and minds in counterinsurgency missions is not only a strategy to be used on foreign populations, but also one that is necessary on the "home front." This article is focused on the home battlefield; it is an analysis of the efforts by Canadian political elites to justify the use of military resources during the 2001-2011 interventions in Afghanistan. To fully understand Canadian public opinion of the Afghanistan war requires assess…
Helpful heroes and the political utility of militarized masculinities
This article was named the winner of the 2019 Enloe Award. The committee commented: This article, which draws upon Enloe’s central ideas on militarized masculinities and enriches/refines the literature by focusing on the “helpful hero” trope utilized to justify the Canadian military intervention in Afghanistan in 2001–2014, is innovative in its framing and methods. The author’s discourse analysis of “helpful heroes” and her broader analysis of “h…
Can we really “forget” militarization? A conversation on Alison Howell’s martial politics
First paragraph: Alison Howell’s (2018) article “Forget ‘Militarization’: Race, Disability and the ‘Martial Politics’ of the Police and of the University” has already generated many rich conversations. With its bold critique of formulaic uses of the term “militarization,” and a call to observe the ways in which everyday life is shaped by martial politics, Howell's contribution especially gave pause to many of us who readily use the concept of mil…
Militarization in Canada: Myth-Breaking and Image-Making Through Recruitment Campaigns
Despite widely held attachments by Canadians to a national identity and self-perceived role as international peacekeepers, in 2006 the Department of Defence introduced a recruitment campaign intended to "toughen" the image of the Canadian Armed Forces and showcase a more "realistic" perspective of military service. The 2006-2008 "Fight campaign" advertisements symbolized efforts by political and military elites to re-brand the image of the Canadi…
Discursive battlefields: Support(ing) the troops in Canada
Winning hearts and minds in counterinsurgency missions is not only a strategy to be used on foreign populations, but also one that is necessary on the "home front." This article is focused on the home battlefield; it is an analysis of the efforts by Canadian political elites to justify the use of military resources during the 2001-2011 interventions in Afghanistan. To fully understand Canadian public opinion of the Afghanistan war requires assess…
Martial(ling) peace at the war museum: Emotion, desires and representations of the war-peace dichotomy
This article investigates the role of emotions and the conceptual use of peace to justify martial violence. Drawing upon empirical evidence collected at the Canadian War Museum, the article explores how representations of war history present militarized violence as both a threat to, and the solution for, global peace. Building on scholarship in IR and Peace Studies that theorizes the relationship between war and peace, this article puts forward a…
OUP accepted manuscript
This article explores the rituals and rhythms of military commemoration events and the ways these practices reproduce and \nlegitimize militarism. I assess two Canadian war commemorative rituals—the Highway of Heroes gatherings and the Portraits \nof Honour tour—as micro-political sites where the affective dimensions of militarism are reproduced. The article theorizes \nhow emotion and affect are entangled in rhythms of commemorative rituals. Whi…
Feminist Foreign Policy as a Case of Governance Feminism: Neoliberalism, Militarism, and Women as “Agents of Change
A growing number of Western states are positioning feminism as the path to a more peaceful and prosperous world. In this article, we examine Canada's feminist foreign policy agenda as an instance of governance feminism, whereby the normative commitment to gender equality is pursued by governing women's agency. We conduct a qualitative discursive analysis of eleven key policy documents spanning development, peace, and security and trade, unpacking…
Framing sexual and gender-based violence: Australia Day, nationalism and conservative prime ministerial policy discourse
Grace Tame's 2021 Australian of the Year (AOTY) award directed public attention towards sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), as did Australia Day award recipients Donna Carson in 2004 and Rosie Battie in 2015. We use mixed-method textual analysis of a corpus of prime minister's Australia Day speeches between 1990 and 2021 to show how conservative Liberal Party prime ministers have narrated a discourse of idealised national identity to manage …
War Myths and the Normalization of PTSD and Military Suicide: The Military Suicide Equation
Military suicide is an increasing concern for Western militaries. In this article, using a qualitative media analysis, we introduce the military suicide equation as a metanarrative and analytic tool for understanding discourse on military suicides. This metanarrative-overseas service + post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) = suicide-positions military suicide as the consequences of PTSD acquired during overseas military deployment and positions i…
Discursive battlefields: Support(ing) the troops in Canada
Winning hearts and minds in counterinsurgency missions is not only a strategy to be used on foreign populations, but also one that is necessary on the "home front." This article is focused on the home battlefield; it is an analysis of the efforts by Canadian political elites to justify the use of military resources during the 2001-2011 interventions in Afghanistan. To fully understand Canadian public opinion of the Afghanistan war requires assess…
Can we really “forget” militarization? A conversation on Alison Howell’s martial politics
First paragraph: Alison Howell’s (2018) article “Forget ‘Militarization’: Race, Disability and the ‘Martial Politics’ of the Police and of the University” has already generated many rich conversations. With its bold critique of formulaic uses of the term “militarization,” and a call to observe the ways in which everyday life is shaped by martial politics, Howell's contribution especially gave pause to many of us who readily use the concept of mil…
Militarization in Canada: Myth-Breaking and Image-Making Through Recruitment Campaigns
Despite widely held attachments by Canadians to a national identity and self-perceived role as international peacekeepers, in 2006 the Department of Defence introduced a recruitment campaign intended to "toughen" the image of the Canadian Armed Forces and showcase a more "realistic" perspective of military service. The 2006-2008 "Fight campaign" advertisements symbolized efforts by political and military elites to re-brand the image of the Canadi…
Helpful heroes and the political utility of militarized masculinities
This article was named the winner of the 2019 Enloe Award. The committee commented: This article, which draws upon Enloe’s central ideas on militarized masculinities and enriches/refines the literature by focusing on the “helpful hero” trope utilized to justify the Canadian military intervention in Afghanistan in 2001–2014, is innovative in its framing and methods. The author’s discourse analysis of “helpful heroes” and her broader analysis of “h…
OUP accepted manuscript
This article explores the rituals and rhythms of military commemoration events and the ways these practices reproduce and \nlegitimize militarism. I assess two Canadian war commemorative rituals—the Highway of Heroes gatherings and the Portraits \nof Honour tour—as micro-political sites where the affective dimensions of militarism are reproduced. The article theorizes \nhow emotion and affect are entangled in rhythms of commemorative rituals. Whi…
War Myths and the Normalization of PTSD and Military Suicide: The Military Suicide Equation
Military suicide is an increasing concern for Western militaries. In this article, using a qualitative media analysis, we introduce the military suicide equation as a metanarrative and analytic tool for understanding discourse on military suicides. This metanarrative-overseas service + post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) = suicide-positions military suicide as the consequences of PTSD acquired during overseas military deployment and positions i…
Martialling Peace: How the Peacekeeper Myth Legitimises Warfare
This is a not a book about peacekeeping practices. This is a book about storytelling, fantasies and emotional connections to myths about peacekeeping. The book argues that the celebration of peacekeeping as a legitimate and desirable use of military force is expressed through the unproblematised acceptance of militarism. Introducing a novel framework – martial peace – the book offers an in-depth examination of the Canadian Armed Forces missions t…
Martial(ling) peace at the war museum: Emotion, desires and representations of the war-peace dichotomy
This article investigates the role of emotions and the conceptual use of peace to justify martial violence. Drawing upon empirical evidence collected at the Canadian War Museum, the article explores how representations of war history present militarized violence as both a threat to, and the solution for, global peace. Building on scholarship in IR and Peace Studies that theorizes the relationship between war and peace, this article puts forward a…
Framing sexual and gender-based violence: Australia Day, nationalism and conservative prime ministerial policy discourse
Grace Tame's 2021 Australian of the Year (AOTY) award directed public attention towards sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV), as did Australia Day award recipients Donna Carson in 2004 and Rosie Battie in 2015. We use mixed-method textual analysis of a corpus of prime minister's Australia Day speeches between 1990 and 2021 to show how conservative Liberal Party prime ministers have narrated a discourse of idealised national identity to manage …
Inclusive militarism? Canada's feminist policy-making in security and defence
In this article, we examine how feminist goals inform Canada's security and defence policies. Using an intersectional feminist framework, we outline gender-inclusive strategies in the defence sector, and their limitations. Although important pro-feminist improvements have been made in Canada's security and defence policies, we argue that they are unlikely to translate into structurally transformative outcomes because they are narrowly operational…
Feminist Foreign Policy as a Case of Governance Feminism: Neoliberalism, Militarism, and Women as “Agents of Change
A growing number of Western states are positioning feminism as the path to a more peaceful and prosperous world. In this article, we examine Canada's feminist foreign policy agenda as an instance of governance feminism, whereby the normative commitment to gender equality is pursued by governing women's agency. We conduct a qualitative discursive analysis of eleven key policy documents spanning development, peace, and security and trade, unpacking…
Political science (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (6 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · Militarization (4 works)