Beyond ‘Market’ and ‘State Feminism’: Gender Knowledge at the Intersections of Marketization and Securitization.

Autor(en)

Saskia Stachowitsch-Clar

Abstrakt

This article assesses the implications of the shifting market-state relationship for feminism in the neoliberal era. In a case study of the private military and security industry as an actor that is uniquely positioned at the intersections of security governance and global markets, the analysis combines feminist security studies' critique of securitized gender discourses and feminist global political economy scholarship on corporate-led equality initiatives. Based on a critical discourse analysis of documents from industry and nongovernmental organizations, such as codes of conduct and policy recommendations, I argue that the discourses on gender put forward in the context of security privatization merge securitized and marketized discourses to the effect that the emancipatory potential of "gender" is further curtailed, raising new challenges for feminist knowledge in powerful organizations. The article thus contributes to the critical gender research on private security, debates on the neoliberalization and securitization of feminism, and the integration of feminist security studies and feminist global political economy.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Politikwissenschaft

Journal

Politics & Gender

Band

15

Seiten

151-173

Anzahl der Seiten

23

ISSN

1743-923X

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X18000351

Publikationsdatum

08-2018

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

504014 Gender Studies, 506007 Internationale Beziehungen, 506001 Allgemeine Staatslehre

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Gender studies, Sociology and Political Science

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 5 – Geschlechtergleichheit

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/7aa086c4-4378-48db-89fe-dae4add1f984