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Beyond “Market” and “State” Feminism: Gender Knowledge at the Intersections of Marketization and Securitization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2018

Saskia Stachowitsch
Saskia Stachowitsch*
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University of Vienna/Austrian Institute for International Affairs (oiip)
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Abstract

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.

Keywords

PMSCsfeminist knowledgegender mainstreamingfeminist security studiesfeminist global political economyneoliberalization of feminismprivate securitymarket-state relationship
Type
Research Article
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Politics & Gender , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , March 2019 , pp. 151 - 173
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Copyright © The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association 2018 

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Footnotes

The author would like to thank Josefa Stiegler for her assistance in the preparation of this manuscript. This research was funded by the Austrian Science Fund (project number V291-G22).

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