dc.contributor.author | Jennings, Kathleen | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-11-26T08:40:59Z | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-12-04T09:27:22Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-11-26T08:40:59Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-12-04T09:27:22Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-01-17 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Jennings. Conditional Protection? Sex, Gender, and Discourse in UN Peacekeeping. International Studies Quarterly. 2019;63(1):30-42 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0020-8833 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0020-8833 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1468-2478 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10642/7865 | |
dc.description.abstract | How do peacekeepers operating in Haiti, Liberia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) discursively construct
the local people, especially local women, and to what effect? I show a connection between peacekeepers’ representations
of local people, articulated in discourse, and the gendered, often sexualized interactions and transactions in peacekeeping
sites. Gender plays a central role in peacekeeper discourse. It situates the peacekeeper outside, and superior to, the chaotic,
dysfunctional, feminized local. At the same time, a close reading of peacekeepers’ representations of local people disrupts
idealized notions of peacekeeper masculinity as protective and benign, which still persist in peacekeeping circles, revealing it
as something more vulnerable and brittle. The connection between discourse and (non)performance of peacekeeping duties
is neither causal nor straightforward, but I argue that peacekeepers’ discursive constructions of locals affect how peacekeepers
interpret their mandate to protect civilians: protection becomes conditional on peacekeepers’ perceptions of locals’ appearance,
affect, behavior, and their ability to act out an idealized role as someone “worth” protecting. The article thus brings new
insight to our understandings of gender, masculinities, and protection failures in peacekeeping. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | Funding was provided by the Research Council of Norway (grant no. 207757) and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (reference QZA 1072098). | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Oxford University Press | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | International Studies Quarterly;Volume 63, Issue 1 | |
dc.rights | This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in
Physical Therapy following peer review. The version of record is available online at:
https://academic.oup.com/isq/article/63/1/30/5290471 | en |
dc.subject | Conditional protection | en |
dc.subject | Sex | en |
dc.subject | Genders | en |
dc.subject | Discourses | en |
dc.subject | United Nations | en |
dc.subject | Peacekeeping | en |
dc.title | Conditional Protection? Sex, Gender, and Discourse in UN Peacekeeping | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.date.updated | 2019-11-26T08:40:58Z | |
dc.description.version | acceptedVersion | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqy048 | |
dc.identifier.cristin | 1708342 | |
dc.source.journal | International Studies Quarterly | |
dc.subject.nsi | VDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Statsvitenskap og organisasjonsteori: 240 | |
dc.subject.nsi | VDP::Social sciences: 200::Political science and organisational theory: 240 | |