Colleen Bell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3687820 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Colleen Bell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Colleen |
| FAMILY NAME | Bell |
| SIGNATURE | BELL C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Saskatchewan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4348-4776 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 96 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
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
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…
Our State / Ourselves
This paper presents findings from interview research with Canadian police officers deployed to the UN peacekeeping missions in Haiti between 2004 and 2017. Focusing on the problem of sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA), we present three discourses that emerge from this research and their reasoning about the problem of SEA. These discourses suggest that (1) other contributing countries are responsible for the problem of SEA; (2) the UN fails to sa…
Thank You to Reviewers
CSoS ECR outstanding research article award 2023 winner
"CSoS ECR outstanding research article award 2023 winner." Critical Studies on Security, 11(2), p. 63
Recentring the coloniality of global policing
This article develops a new framework for the analysis of international policing. We argue that attention to the historical dynamics that shape international policing challenges not only commonly held views about it but also how it is studied. Building on insights from global historical sociology as well as decolonial and postcolonial theories, we place co-constitution, processual relationalism and coloniality at the centre of our understanding o…
Discipline and Punish
La violence et la répression exercées à l’encontre des militantes des droits du sol et de l’environnement qui s’opposent au développement de l’industrie de l’extraction (un groupe classé par les Nations Unies comme défenseurs des droits de la personne) ont été bien documentées par plusieurs organismes non gouvernementaux œuvrant dans le domaine. Malgré leur importance équivalente, des formes indirectes de violence touchant ces mêmes défenseurs, a…
The International Relations of Police Power in Settler Colonialism
In contrast to narratives by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the United Nations, and some scholars that international police assistance is a relatively recent phenomenon, we argue that Canada's Mounties have always been international. To develop this argument, we examine three dimensions of police power in international relations historically and with respect to the role of the Mounties specifically. First, we discuss the concept of police pow…
Celebrity power and powers of war
This article examines the public profile of a number of American defence intellectuals involved in the re-emergence of counterinsurgency strategy in US-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Although there has been attention to the rise of soft knowledges and new communication strategies in Western warfare, the recent foray of war experts into the glossy world of celebrity infotainment – that is, media venues that are designed to both inform and enter…
Grey’s Anatomy Goes South
This chapter explores the biometric documentation of civilians by coalition forces in the battle zones of the ‘war on terror’. With the growth of population-centric operations, harvesting body data is a key dimension of efforts to divide the population between civilians and insurgents, while also serving as a general strategy of population management over life perceived to be potentially dangerous. This chapter examines how these dividing and gov…
The political impossibility of counterinsurgency
A decade and a half on, US-led global counter-terrorism operations continue to require critical commentary. The political impossibility of counterinsurgency is an insightful contribution to such ef
War, Police and Assemblages of Intervention
This is a vital and timely collection.These essays work superbly well together to unpack
War, Police and Assemblages of Intervention
War and the Allegory of Medical Intervention
Metaphors help people make sense of their environment. They are particularly useful in reasoning about complex and unfamiliar situations (Chilton 1996:48). There is a long history of analogy between medicine and warfare. In the field of medicine, infectious and malignant diseases are a “threat” that people hope to “evade.” If the body is infected or overrun by the disease, medical experts wage a counter attack. If the patient survives, they are s…
Civilianising warfare
Post-Interventionary Societies
From the era of post-Cold War humanitarian intervention to the long-term interventions launched in the name of the Global War on Terror, the aftermaths of large-scale violence are commonly referred
Terrorism to Insurgency
This article examines developments in the Global War on Terror in terms of a shift in focus from terrorism to insurgency. We argue that the recent focus on the problematic of insurgency involves understanding the threat of terrorism as a matter of low-intensity conflict that can best be addressed through technologies of conflict management and peace-building. The article is composed of five sections. It begins with a discussion of the shifting te…
Surveillance Strategies and Populations at Risk
This article examines how Canada’s new national security policy operates through language and practices that take elusive risks to the health and safety of the population as an opportunity for action, and is made possible through an expansion of surveillance. The biopolitical character of security has greatly reduced the traditional distinction between the state as a military apparatus and the state as a service provider and manager of the citize…
Subject to Exception
Cet article examine les valeurs que la procédure de certificats de sécurité de la Loi sur l'immigration et la protection des réfugiés attache à la vie de non citoyens ainsi que ses conséquences sur le pouvoir étatique et la liberté politique. Sous l'impératif de la sécurité nationale et la «guerre au terrorisme», le certificat de sécurité constitue un moment d'exception du pouvoir souverain et légitime. Ceci met en cause l'État de droit alors que…
Ideology, Discourse, and Gender
By examining how gatekeepers talk about women who work in the male-dominated occupation of the public school superintendence!, we show that gatekeepers' explanations and descriptions of women's actions and situations frequently embody the ideologies and discourses of individual achievement and gender neutrality. We argue that this contributes to the persistence of men's dominance of positions of power. We show that gatekeepers sometimes rethink t…
Organizational influences on women's experience in the superintendency
This article examines superintendent‐school board relationships in three school districts where the superintendents are women. Drawing upon multiple sources of qualitative data and concepts from Kanter's structural framework, the author analyzes organizational influences that shape the process of superintendent selection and the conditions under which authority is negotiated
Surveillance Strategies and Populations at Risk
This article examines how Canada’s new national security policy operates through language and practices that take elusive risks to the health and safety of the population as an opportunity for action, and is made possible through an expansion of surveillance. The biopolitical character of security has greatly reduced the traditional distinction between the state as a military apparatus and the state as a service provider and manager of the citize…
Discipline and Punish
La violence et la répression exercées à l’encontre des militantes des droits du sol et de l’environnement qui s’opposent au développement de l’industrie de l’extraction (un groupe classé par les Nations Unies comme défenseurs des droits de la personne) ont été bien documentées par plusieurs organismes non gouvernementaux œuvrant dans le domaine. Malgré leur importance équivalente, des formes indirectes de violence touchant ces mêmes défenseurs, a…
The International Relations of Police Power in Settler Colonialism
In contrast to narratives by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the United Nations, and some scholars that international police assistance is a relatively recent phenomenon, we argue that Canada's Mounties have always been international. To develop this argument, we examine three dimensions of police power in international relations historically and with respect to the role of the Mounties specifically. First, we discuss the concept of police pow…
Civilianising warfare
Ideology, Discourse, and Gender
By examining how gatekeepers talk about women who work in the male-dominated occupation of the public school superintendence!, we show that gatekeepers' explanations and descriptions of women's actions and situations frequently embody the ideologies and discourses of individual achievement and gender neutrality. We argue that this contributes to the persistence of men's dominance of positions of power. We show that gatekeepers sometimes rethink t…
Subject to Exception
Cet article examine les valeurs que la procédure de certificats de sécurité de la Loi sur l'immigration et la protection des réfugiés attache à la vie de non citoyens ainsi que ses conséquences sur le pouvoir étatique et la liberté politique. Sous l'impératif de la sécurité nationale et la «guerre au terrorisme», le certificat de sécurité constitue un moment d'exception du pouvoir souverain et légitime. Ceci met en cause l'État de droit alors que…
War and the Allegory of Medical Intervention
Metaphors help people make sense of their environment. They are particularly useful in reasoning about complex and unfamiliar situations (Chilton 1996:48). There is a long history of analogy between medicine and warfare. In the field of medicine, infectious and malignant diseases are a “threat” that people hope to “evade.” If the body is infected or overrun by the disease, medical experts wage a counter attack. If the patient survives, they are s…
Terrorism to Insurgency
This article examines developments in the Global War on Terror in terms of a shift in focus from terrorism to insurgency. We argue that the recent focus on the problematic of insurgency involves understanding the threat of terrorism as a matter of low-intensity conflict that can best be addressed through technologies of conflict management and peace-building. The article is composed of five sections. It begins with a discussion of the shifting te…
Organizational influences on women's experience in the superintendency
This article examines superintendent‐school board relationships in three school districts where the superintendents are women. Drawing upon multiple sources of qualitative data and concepts from Kanter's structural framework, the author analyzes organizational influences that shape the process of superintendent selection and the conditions under which authority is negotiated
Post-Interventionary Societies
From the era of post-Cold War humanitarian intervention to the long-term interventions launched in the name of the Global War on Terror, the aftermaths of large-scale violence are commonly referred
Celebrity power and powers of war
This article examines the public profile of a number of American defence intellectuals involved in the re-emergence of counterinsurgency strategy in US-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Although there has been attention to the rise of soft knowledges and new communication strategies in Western warfare, the recent foray of war experts into the glossy world of celebrity infotainment – that is, media venues that are designed to both inform and enter…
Feminist Foreign Policy as a Case of Governance Feminism
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…
Recentring the coloniality of global policing
This article develops a new framework for the analysis of international policing. We argue that attention to the historical dynamics that shape international policing challenges not only commonly held views about it but also how it is studied. Building on insights from global historical sociology as well as decolonial and postcolonial theories, we place co-constitution, processual relationalism and coloniality at the centre of our understanding o…
Organizational influences on women's experience in the superintendency
This article examines superintendent‐school board relationships in three school districts where the superintendents are women. Drawing upon multiple sources of qualitative data and concepts from Kanter's structural framework, the author analyzes organizational influences that shape the process of superintendent selection and the conditions under which authority is negotiated
Ideology, Discourse, and Gender
By examining how gatekeepers talk about women who work in the male-dominated occupation of the public school superintendence!, we show that gatekeepers' explanations and descriptions of women's actions and situations frequently embody the ideologies and discourses of individual achievement and gender neutrality. We argue that this contributes to the persistence of men's dominance of positions of power. We show that gatekeepers sometimes rethink t…
Surveillance Strategies and Populations at Risk
This article examines how Canada’s new national security policy operates through language and practices that take elusive risks to the health and safety of the population as an opportunity for action, and is made possible through an expansion of surveillance. The biopolitical character of security has greatly reduced the traditional distinction between the state as a military apparatus and the state as a service provider and manager of the citize…
Subject to Exception
Cet article examine les valeurs que la procédure de certificats de sécurité de la Loi sur l'immigration et la protection des réfugiés attache à la vie de non citoyens ainsi que ses conséquences sur le pouvoir étatique et la liberté politique. Sous l'impératif de la sécurité nationale et la «guerre au terrorisme», le certificat de sécurité constitue un moment d'exception du pouvoir souverain et légitime. Ceci met en cause l'État de droit alors que…
Post-Interventionary Societies
From the era of post-Cold War humanitarian intervention to the long-term interventions launched in the name of the Global War on Terror, the aftermaths of large-scale violence are commonly referred
Terrorism to Insurgency
This article examines developments in the Global War on Terror in terms of a shift in focus from terrorism to insurgency. We argue that the recent focus on the problematic of insurgency involves understanding the threat of terrorism as a matter of low-intensity conflict that can best be addressed through technologies of conflict management and peace-building. The article is composed of five sections. It begins with a discussion of the shifting te…
Civilianising warfare
War and the Allegory of Medical Intervention
Metaphors help people make sense of their environment. They are particularly useful in reasoning about complex and unfamiliar situations (Chilton 1996:48). There is a long history of analogy between medicine and warfare. In the field of medicine, infectious and malignant diseases are a “threat” that people hope to “evade.” If the body is infected or overrun by the disease, medical experts wage a counter attack. If the patient survives, they are s…
War, Police and Assemblages of Intervention
This is a vital and timely collection.These essays work superbly well together to unpack
War, Police and Assemblages of Intervention
The political impossibility of counterinsurgency
A decade and a half on, US-led global counter-terrorism operations continue to require critical commentary. The political impossibility of counterinsurgency is an insightful contribution to such ef
Grey’s Anatomy Goes South
This chapter explores the biometric documentation of civilians by coalition forces in the battle zones of the ‘war on terror’. With the growth of population-centric operations, harvesting body data is a key dimension of efforts to divide the population between civilians and insurgents, while also serving as a general strategy of population management over life perceived to be potentially dangerous. This chapter examines how these dividing and gov…
The International Relations of Police Power in Settler Colonialism
In contrast to narratives by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the United Nations, and some scholars that international police assistance is a relatively recent phenomenon, we argue that Canada's Mounties have always been international. To develop this argument, we examine three dimensions of police power in international relations historically and with respect to the role of the Mounties specifically. First, we discuss the concept of police pow…
Celebrity power and powers of war
This article examines the public profile of a number of American defence intellectuals involved in the re-emergence of counterinsurgency strategy in US-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Although there has been attention to the rise of soft knowledges and new communication strategies in Western warfare, the recent foray of war experts into the glossy world of celebrity infotainment – that is, media venues that are designed to both inform and enter…
Discipline and Punish
La violence et la répression exercées à l’encontre des militantes des droits du sol et de l’environnement qui s’opposent au développement de l’industrie de l’extraction (un groupe classé par les Nations Unies comme défenseurs des droits de la personne) ont été bien documentées par plusieurs organismes non gouvernementaux œuvrant dans le domaine. Malgré leur importance équivalente, des formes indirectes de violence touchant ces mêmes défenseurs, a…
Recentring the coloniality of global policing
This article develops a new framework for the analysis of international policing. We argue that attention to the historical dynamics that shape international policing challenges not only commonly held views about it but also how it is studied. Building on insights from global historical sociology as well as decolonial and postcolonial theories, we place co-constitution, processual relationalism and coloniality at the centre of our understanding o…
Our State / Ourselves
This paper presents findings from interview research with Canadian police officers deployed to the UN peacekeeping missions in Haiti between 2004 and 2017. Focusing on the problem of sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA), we present three discourses that emerge from this research and their reasoning about the problem of SEA. These discourses suggest that (1) other contributing countries are responsible for the problem of SEA; (2) the UN fails to sa…
Thank You to Reviewers
CSoS ECR outstanding research article award 2023 winner
"CSoS ECR outstanding research article award 2023 winner." Critical Studies on Security, 11(2), p. 63
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
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…
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