Militarisation as diffusion: the politics of gender, space and the everyday
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.
Keywords: critical military studies; diffusion; difusión; estudios militares críticos; everyday life; feminist geopolitics; gender; geopolítica feminista; género; militarisation; militarización; race; raza; vida cotidiana
Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: 1: Gender Institute, The London School of Economics and Political Science, Columbia House, Houghton St, London, WC2A 2AE, UK 2: Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, UK
Publication date: 02 June 2016
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