Men, Militarism, and UN Peacekeeping
A Gendered Analysis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6319131 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Margaret P Karns (0000-0001-9870-9736, University of Dayton, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 696-697 |
| Publication date | 2005-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Men, Militarism, and UN Peacekeeping: A Gendered Analysis, Sandra Whitworth, 2004 |
| Venue | Perspectives on Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1537-5927 • E-ISSN: 1541-0986 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1537592705940255 |
| OpenAlex | W1966494172 |
| Language | EN |
Men, Militarism, and UN Peacekeeping: A Gendered Analysis. By Sandra Whitworth. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2004. 225p. $49.95.The rapid expansion in United Nations peacekeeping operations in the 1990s has inevitably led to official and scholarly scrutiny of their efficacy and shortcomings. Sandra Whitworth offers a critical eye and questions of gendered analysis by studying the subjects of the UN's peacekeeping operation in Cambodia, whose presence often meant greater insecurity as well as the (mis)conduct of soldiers from Canada—a country historically linked to major peacekeeping contributions—in Somalia. Using these two case studies, Whitworth highlights a basic contradiction inherent in peacekeeping that stems from its heavy reliance on soldiers whose training emphasizes masculine traits of violence, homophobia, racism, and aggression, yet whose tasks as peacekeepers require limiting violence to self-defense and providing a benign, altruistic presence. She uses gender analysis to examine these contradictions, to challenge peacekeeping's association with alternatives to military violence, to show how peacekeeping forces can increase local people's insecurity, rather than alleviating it, and to critique the use of soldiers for missions requiring unsoldierly skills
Aggression · Contradiction · Criminology · Hatred · Militarism · Peacekeeping · Political science · Politics · Scrutiny · Sociology · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Psychology · Social Psychology
Gender and (International) Political Economy
Police Peacekeeping
Explaining sexual exploitation and abuse in peacekeeping missions
Highways, heroes, and secular martyrs
Feminist international relations
Gender and the micro-dynamics of violent conflicts
Gendered forms of authority and solidarity in the management of ethno-religious conflicts
Empire, Desire and Violence
The Transformative Impact of Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping
Women as the Essential Protectors of Children
Militarism and the Bedouin
Gender Mainstreaming Unraveled
The thing with sexual exploitation”
Researching from the spaces in between? The politics of accountability in studying the British military
From 'liberal war' to 'liberal militarism
Queer International Relations
Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War
Setting the Advocacy Agenda
Restoring Confidence in Post-Conflict Security Sectors
Abuso e exploração sexual em operações de paz
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |