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- Eriksson Baaz, Maria, 1971-, et al.
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What Can We/Do We Want to Know? : Reflections from Researching SGBV in Military Settings
- 2018
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Ingår i: Social Politics. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1072-4745 .- 1468-2893. ; 25:4, s. 521-544
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores methodological challenges that arose in two perpetrator-centered research projects on sexual and gender-based violence in two different armed forces contexts: the British Army and the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo. We examine how the interplay between research subjects’, in this case perpetrators’, performances and our own desires and investments as researchers shape the knowledge we produce. Ultimately, we seek to encourage continuing (self)critical discussions on how various discursive framings and ethico-political desires shape the stories we hear as well as those that we tell.
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- Gray, Harriet, 1983, et al.
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Refugees as/at risk: The gendered and racialized underpinnings of securitization in British media narratives
- 2019
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Ingår i: Security Dialogue. - : SAGE Publications. - 0967-0106 .- 1460-3640. ; 50:3, s. 275-291
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- It is well established in the literature that migration has become increasingly securitized. In this article, we examine the racialized and gendered grids of intelligibility that make securitizing moves possible in the migration context. Specifically, we argue that the securitization of migration during the so-called EU refugee crisis comes into being through intertwined and mutually dependent representations of racialized, masculinized threat and racialized, feminized vulnerability, which are woven into the scaffolding of colonial modernity. We construct our argument through an analysis of relevant newspaper articles published in British newspapers between September 2015 and March 2016. Accordingly, our discussion advances understandings of the dominant narratives through which the ‘refugee crisis’ has been understood. In addition, in highlighting the naturalized inequalities that underpin securitizing speech acts, the article also contributes to literature that seeks to add an improved understanding of power to securitization theory.
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- Gray, Harriet, 1983
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Researching from the spaces in between? The politics of accountability in studying the British military
- 2016
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Ingår i: Critical Military Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 2333-7486 .- 2333-7494. ; 2:1-2, s. 70-83
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper is an exploration of the embodied experience of attempting to occupy the spaces in between collaboration and disengagement in conducting feminist-informed, critical research on the British military, and the ethical questions raised by doing so. It draws for illustration on a qualitative study of domestic abuse in the British Armed Forces, which began independently of the institution before seeking support from and ethical clearance through the military at a later date. The paper discusses the risk that research based on high levels of access to the military may be co-opted by the institution and its priorities; that is, that such research may become militarized. Drawing on feminist work on the politics of accountability, it also highlights the importance of reflecting upon the ways in which research on military populations may be taken up by the institutions themselves. In opposition, it explores the political and ethical quandaries raised by pursuing such research in detachment from the military institution, and the lack of nuance likely to characterize the findings of such a study. The paper thus reflects upon some of the researcher’s embodied experience of negotiating a space between these two poles as well as on the political and ethical questions which this position, too, engenders.
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- Gray, Harriet, 1983, et al.
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Risky dis/entanglements: Torture and sexual violence in conflict
- 2019
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Ingår i: European Journal of International Relations. - : SAGE Publications. - 1354-0661 .- 1460-3713. ; 25:4, s. 1035-1058
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Conflict-related sexual violence has become increasingly recognized in international spaces as a serious, political form of violence. As part of this process, distinctions between the categories of ‘sexual violence’ and ‘torture’ have blurred as scholars and other actors have sought to capitalize on the globally recognized status of torture in raising the profile of sexual violence. This move, while perhaps strategically promising, even already fruitful, prompts us to heed caution. What might we inadvertently engender by further pursuing such positioning? While torture and sexual violence have both been widely framed within the academic literature as strategic in recent decades, only torture, and not sexual violence, has emerged from elements of this literature as (potentially) legitimate, despite the slippages between them as categories of violence. This article offers one avenue for thinking through what an invigorated focus on sexual torture as a category of violence might unwittingly render possible, and thus for reflecting on the possible stakes of collapsing the categories of sexual violence and torture. Ultimately, we argue that we should perhaps resist the urge to frame sexual violence as torture and instead cleave to the sticky signifier of ‘the sexual’, despite the ways in which it has served to normalize, perpetuate and obfuscate grievous harms throughout history.
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- Gray, Harriet, 1983
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The Trauma Risk Management approach to post-traumatic stress disorder in the British military: Masculinity, biopolitics, and depoliticisation
- 2015
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Ingår i: Feminist review. - : SAGE Publications. - 0141-7789 .- 1466-4380. ; 111, s. 109-123
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper discusses the political implications of the British military’s Trauma Risk Management (TRiM) approach to personnel suffering from combat-related mental debilities such as post-traumatic stress disorder. Drawing on narratives that emerged from qualitative interviews with trained TRiM practitioners and military welfare workers, I tease out some of the assumptions and beliefs about mental health and mental illness that underpin this mental health intervention programme. I explore TRiM as a biopolitical strategy targeted towards the construction of a particular conceptualisation of mental wellness and militarised masculine personhood. As a biopolitical strategy, I argue that TRiM plays an important role in the construction of ideas around mental well-being and mental frailty that best enable the operation of military power in the contemporary British context. I discuss the narrative of transformation in militarised models of masculinity that emerge from discussions of TRiM, and highlight the important political function that this plays in enabling and legitimating militarism. Finally, I draw attention to the ways in which the focus on individual and cultural factors, rather than war as the primary cause of difficulties for servicemen experiencing psychological distress, functions to neutralise the potential trouble that could be instigated for the British military by the bodies of servicemen psychologically damaged by their experiences of conflict.
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- Gray, Harriet, 1983
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The 'war'/'not-war' divide: Domestic violence in the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative
- 2019
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Ingår i: British Journal of Politics & International Relations. - : SAGE Publications. - 1369-1481 .- 1467-856X. ; 21:1, s. 189-206
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- While recognising the importance of policy designed to tackle conflict-related sexual and gender-based violence, scholars have increasingly critiqued such policies for failing sufficiently to apprehend the multiple forms of this violence - from rape deployed as a weapon of war to domestic violence - as interrelated oppressions located along a continuum. In this article, I explore a connected but distinct line of critique, arguing that sexual and gender-based violence policies are also limited by a narrow understanding of how gender-based violences relate to war itself. Drawing on an analysis of the British Government's Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative, I identify a key distinction which emerges between those types of sexual and gender-based violence which are considered to be part of war, and those which are not. This division, I suggest, closes down space for recognising how war is also enacted within private spaces.
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- Gray, Harriet, 1983, et al.
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Torture and sexual violence in war and conflict: The unmaking and remaking of subjects of violence
- 2020
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Ingår i: Review of International Studies. - 0260-2105. ; 46:2, s. 197-216
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Despite the wide repository of knowledge about conflict-related sexual violence that now exists, there remains a lack of understanding about how victims/survivors of such violence themselves make sense of and frame their experiences in conversation with global and local discourses and with the categorisations that underpin support programmes. Such sense-making is important not only because the ways in which violence is categorised shape a victim/survivor's ability to access particular forms of recognition and support, but also because it is central in how shattered selves and worlds are remade in the aftermath of violence. Drawing on individual and group interviews conducted with refugees living in Kampala, Uganda, this article charts how framings of ‘torture’ and ‘sexual violence’ become meaningful in participants’ accounts in the (re)formation of themselves as subjects after violent victimisation. We trace how participants navigate the heteronormative societal and legal norms that shape their subjectivity and the effects of the violence they experienced through the deeply gendered and political work that these terms do in their narratives. Our analysis thus highlights and reminds us to pay attention to the political stakes involved in fluid processes of categorising injury.
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- K. Franck, Anja, 1973, et al.
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“Unaccompanied Pappas”: The securitisation of masculinity in the European refugee crisis
- 2017
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Ingår i: International Studies Association Annual Convention, Baltimore, 22-25 March, 2017.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper employs the lens of securitisation theory to offer a critical reading of the gender representations found in British and Swedish media and policy discourse on the ongoing European refugee crisis. Media coverage and policy statements have given considerable focus to the gender imbalance among refugees, particularly in the early stages of the current crisis when the significant majority of those making the dangerous journey to Europe were young men. In making sense of these narratives, we begin from the observation that the gendered representations which emerge from situations of conflict and upheaval are not merely incidental; rather, they are political constructs, and they have political functions and implications. We argue that (racialised) refugee masculinity has become securitised through gendered discourse which presents refugee men as an existential threat to the European societies which refugees hope to reach and which cases doubt on the legitimacy of their claims to victimhood. As such, we explore the misfit between the erasure of the possibility of masculine vulnerability and family-focused identification inherent in such securitised representations and refugee men’s own characterisation of themselves as “unaccompanied Pappas” – as isolated and vulnerable subjects trying to do the best for their families.
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