Going Greenham/going Gaga on peace and security
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5682567 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anne Sisson Runyan (0000-0002-3255-1777, University of Cincinnati, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 216-219 |
| Publication date | 2015-05-04 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Studies on Security (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2162-4887 • E-ISSN: 2162-4909 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/21624887.2015.1047158 |
| OpenAlex | W1783257730 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 3 |
The remarkable correspondences between the 19-year occupation of what was a US Air Forces in Europe Base by the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp and Jack Halberstam’s depictions of new millennium Gaga feminism are revealed through a queer reading of Greenham women and their movement ephemera collected upon the 30th anniversary of the encampment’s beginnings. Although this destabilizes Halberstam’s claim that Gaga feminism is a new feminism, more importantly it raises questions about how the Gagaesque politics of Greenham have given way to a more ‘respectable’ and ‘straight’ feminist peace and security agenda and what the costs are of clinging to conventional feminist peace and security teleologies that render such ‘peace’ politics as passé, marginal, and (erroneously) gender normative with the rise of the UNSCR 1325 era and the shift to feminist security (or war) studies that have come to represent a feminist coming-of-age story. What if ‘we’ queered feminist ‘peace’ stories, defying the dead and deadening categories to which they have been consigned, including by ‘us’? How might going Greenham/going Gaga on peace and security teleologies change the way we imagine what non-normative bodies, relationships, and practices are open to us
Ephemera · Feminism · Normative · Political science · Politics · Queer · Sociology · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Law
| Citations per year | 0.22 |
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| Citation span | 2017 - 2023 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |