Militarisation as diffusion: the politics of gender, space and the everyday

Henry, Marsha and Natanel, Katherine (2016) Militarisation as diffusion: the politics of gender, space and the everyday. Gender, Place & Culture, 23 (6). pp. 850-856. ISSN 0966-369X

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Abstract

Drawing together the work of five feminist scholars whose research spans diverse sociopolitical contexts, this themed section questions militarisation as a fixed condition. Using feminist methodologies to explore the spatialised networks and social mechanisms through which militarisation is sustained and resisted, ‘gendering’ militarisation reveals a complex politics of diffusion at work in a range of everyday power relations. However, diffusion acts not as a unidirectional movement across a border, but as the very contingency which makes militarisation – and transformation – possible. Through connecting the empirical and theoretical work on militarisation with feminist geographies, the authors in this collection highlight the influence of military thinking and institutions, not as static structures, but instead as productive sites.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/cgpc20#.VxpP00wrLGg
Additional Information:	© 2016 Informa UK Limited
Library of Congress subject classification:	H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
Sets:	Departments > Gender Institute
Date Deposited:	22 Apr 2016 16:31
URL:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/66208/

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