Policing men
Militarised masculinity, youth livelihoods, and security in conflict-affected northern Uganda
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3897602 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rebecca Tapscott (0000-0002-0936-5191, Post‐doctoral Research Fellow, Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Switzerland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | S1 |
| Pages | S119-S139 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Disasters (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0361-3666 • E-ISSN: 1467-7717 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/disa.12274 |
| PMID | 29281140 |
| OpenAlex | W2777930198 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 36 |
Relations between militaries and masculinities-and hegemonic masculinity and the state-are well-established in the literature on gender and development. However, there is less research on how militarised masculinities relate to state governance strategies. This paper, based on qualitative research conducted in northern Uganda between 2014 and 2017, offers a gender analysis of youths participating in informal security arrangements. Civilian male youths accept poorly paid or unpaid work in the informal security sector in the hope of gaining access to livelihoods that will enable them to fulfil masculine ideal-types. However, this arrangement denies them the resources necessary to achieve the ideal-type of civilian masculinity, as well as the state's military masculinity, which produces young men as subjects of the ruling regime. To reconfigure this relationship between civilian and militarised masculinities, one should understand informal security organisations in the context of alternative livelihood arrangements and take a long-term approach to the demilitarisation of the Ugandan state
Context (archaeology · Geography · Hegemonic masculinity · Ideal (ethics · Livelihood · Masculinity · Political science · Sociology · State (computer science · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Law
Sowing the Mustard Seed
Men and Development
Trial justice
The Lord’s Resistance Army
Displacing Human RightsWar and Intervention in Northern Uganda
Militarized, Religious and Neo-Colonial
Social Torture
The Time of Youth
Gulu in War … and Peace? The Town as Camp in Northern Uganda
Recruiting Internally Displaced Persons into Civil Militias
In Harm's Way
Say no to bad touches”
Military corruption & Ugandan politics since the late 1990s
Uganda in the regional war zone
Pragmatic and Promiscuous
Civil War, Reintegration, and Gender in Northern Uganda
Kony's Message
Local security and the (un)making of public authority in Gulu, Northern Uganda
Uganda's 2016 elections
Struggling over land in post-conflict Uganda
Resilient patriarchy
Violence, Peace, and Peace Research
Transitional Justice and Political Economies of Survival in Post-conflict Northern Uganda
Rebranding the State
Sudan's Prolonged Second Civil War and the Militarization of Nuer and Dinka Ethnic Identities
Khaki in the Family
Victimcy, Girlfriending, Soldiering
Motion squared
Where the wild things are not
What is hegemonic masculinity
Toward a new sociology of masculinity
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,86 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2021 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |