Gendering the military past: Understanding heritage and security from a feminist perspective

IF 1.9 2区 社会学 Q2 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Cooperation and Conflict Pub Date : 2021-04-09 DOI:10.1177/00108367211007871
C. Åse, Maria Wendt
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This article showcases how a feminist perspective provides novel insights into the relations between military heritage/history and national security politics. We argue that analysing how gender and sexualities operate at military heritage sites reveals how these operations dis/encourage particular understandings of security and limit the range of acceptable national protection policies. Two recent initiatives to preserve the military heritage of the Cold War period in Sweden are examined: the Cold War exhibits at Air Force Museum in Linköping and the redevelopment of a formerly sealed off military compound at Bungenäs, where bunkers have been remade into exclusive summer homes. By combining feminist international relations and critical heritage studies, we unpack the material, affective and embodied underpinnings of security produced at military heritage sites. A key conclusion is that the way heritagization incorporates the ‘naturalness’ of the gender binary and heterosexuality makes conceptualizing security without territory, or territory without military protection, inaccessible. The gendering of emotions and architectural and spatial arrangements supports historical narratives that privilege masculine protection and reinforce a taken-for-granted nativist community. A feminist analysis of military heritage highlights how gender and sexualities restrict security imaginaries; that is, understandings of what is conceivable as security.
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对军事历史进行分类:从女权主义角度理解遗产与安全
这篇文章展示了女权主义视角如何为军事遗产/历史与国家安全政治之间的关系提供新颖的见解。我们认为,分析军事遗产地的性别和性行为,可以揭示这些行动如何削弱/鼓励对安全的特殊理解,并限制可接受的国家保护政策的范围。研究了瑞典最近为保护冷战时期军事遗产而采取的两项举措:林雪平空军博物馆的冷战展品,以及Bungenäs一处以前被封锁的军事大院的重建,那里的掩体被改造成了专属的避暑别墅。通过结合女权主义国际关系和批判性遗产研究,我们揭示了军事遗产地安全的物质、情感和具体基础。一个关键的结论是,继承化结合了性别二元性和异性恋的“自然性”,使得没有领土或没有军事保护的领土的安全概念难以实现。情感、建筑和空间安排的性别化支持了历史叙事,这些叙事赋予男性保护特权,并强化了一个被视为理所当然的本土主义社区。对军事遗产的女权主义分析强调了性别和性取向如何限制安全想象;也就是说,理解什么是可以想象的安全。
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期刊介绍: Published for over 40 years, the aim of Cooperation and Conflict is to promote research on and understanding of international relations. It believes in the deeds of academic pluralism and thus does not represent any specific methodology, approach, tradition or school. The mission of the journal is to meet the demands of the scholarly community having an interest in international studies (for details, see the statement "From the Editors" in Vol. 40, No. 3, September 2005). The editors especially encourage submissions contributing new knowledge of the field and welcome innovative, theory-aware and critical approaches. First preference will continue to be given to articles that have a Nordic and European focus. Cooperation and Conflict strictly adheres to a double-blind reviewing policy.
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