Twenty-five years of Bananas, Beaches and Bases

A conversation with Cynthia Enloe

Bibliographic Data

ID2399348
AuthorsCynthia Enloe (Clark University, MA, USA), Anita Lacey (0000-0001-7725-3303, University of Auckland, corresponding author), Thomas Gregory (0000-0003-2223-1726, University of Auckland)
Year2016
Volume52
Issue3
Pages537-550
Publication date2016-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1440-7833 • E-ISSN: 1741-2978
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1440783316655635
OpenAlexW2507739322
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited9

Cynthia Enloe's book Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics brought a new approach to the study of war, conflict and political economy, an approach informed by and starting from a feminist curiosity. Such a starting point allows for recognition of the diverse, often disregarded gendered dynamics of militarization. A feminist curiosity facilitates making visible the politicization of everyday life via what Enloe calls a bottom-up approach to research and investigation. This account of a conversation between feminist scholars draws attention to the means by which researchers exercise the sociological imagination in their work on labour, militarism and war; the theorizing of gendered militarization; the role for feminist activism around conflict and sexual violence as well as solidarity politics; and the life cycle of Bananas, Beaches and Bases

Conversation · Curiosity · Everyday life · Feminism · Militarism · Militarization · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Solidarity · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology

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