Gender and the EU's Support for Security Sector Reform in Fragile Contexts
Autor/in:
Ansorg, Nadine; Haastrup, Toni
Quelle: JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies, 56 (2018) 5, S 1127–1143
Inhalt: How does the European Union (EU) include 'gender' within its support to security sector reform (SSR) programmes? The EU has committed to include gender perspectives by implementing the Women, Peace and Security agenda (WPS) within its foreign security practices. While researchers and practitioners recognise the importance of integrating gender issues into SSR operational effectiveness, there is limited knowledge about how this functions within the EU's security architecture. This article uses Feminist Institutionalism (FI) to understand the process of gender mainstreaming within the EU's support to SSR programmes. It does this by using two crucial theory‐testing cases of SSR programmes - Ukraine and Afghanistan. It finds that the EU's ability to promote gender inclusive approaches to SSR is limited by the structure of the EU's own assumptions and capabilities, and institutional constraints in third countries. At the same time, the cases underscore the importance of individuals as agents of change.
Subjektivierung als Krisenbearbeitung: feministische und neogramscianische Perspektiven auf die gegenwärtige europäische Krisenpolitik
Titelübersetzung:Subjectivization as crisis management: feminist and neo-Gramscian perspectives of current European crisis policy
Autor/in:
Hajek, Katharina; Opratko, Benjamin
Quelle: Femina Politica - Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft, 22 (2013) 1, S 44-56
Inhalt: "Der Beitrag diskutiert aktuelle Analysen und Zeitdiagnosen zur gegenwärtigen 'multiplen Krise' aus den Perspektiven feministischer und neogramscianischer Internationaler Politischer Ökonomie (IPÖ). Die Autoren argumentieren für eine konzeptionelle Verknüpfung dieser Forschungsansätze, um die Rolle vergeschlechtlichter Subjektivierungsweisen in gegenwärtig dominanten Krisenbearbeitungsstrategien zu untersuchen. Anhand der Krisenpolitik der 'Troika' in Griechenland zeigen die Verfasser, wie insbesondere die - meist implizit gehaltene - Neuverteilung von Zuständigkeiten für gesellschaftlich notwendige Care- und Reproduktionstätigkeiten als Verlagerung der Krisenbearbeitung in die vergeschlechtlichten Subjekte im Sinne einer 'Subjektivierung als Krisenbearbeitung' verstanden werden kann." (Autorenreferat)
Inhalt: "The article discusses current analyses and assessments of the contemporary 'multiple crisis' from the perspectives of feminist and neo-Gramscian International Political Economy (IPE). The authors argue for a conceptual linkage of these approaches in order to analyze the role of gendered subjectivation in currently dominant forms of crisis management. The Troika's policies in Greece are presented as an example for how the - implicitly organized - redistribution of responsibilities for socially necessary care- and reproduction work can be understood as 'subjectivation as crisis management': the displacement of crisis management into the gendered subjects themselves." (author's abstract)