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S Markets, Men, and Mercenaries Private Security through the Lens of Gender, Race, and Global Political Economy Dr. Amanda Chisholm (Newcastle University) Dr. Saskia Stachowitsch (University of Vienna)
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Markets, Men, and Mercenaries Private Security
through the Lens of Gender, Race, and Global Political Economy
Dr. Amanda Chisholm (Newcastle University)Dr. Saskia Stachowitsch (University of Vienna)
Popular Imaginings of Security Contractors
• White• Western• Male• Heterosexual• Hi-Tech Weaponry• Violent• Professional
Media Scandals: Contractor Violence and Gender-based
Exploitation
Self-Representations of the Industry
Private Security is also about…
Unarmed security at shopping centers and special events
Personal Protection
Airport Security
Insurance and Risk
Consultancy and Training
Policy Advisory
The Austrian Case
Academic Inquiries
Historical perspectives
Regulation, accountability
Implications for democracy and policy
State erosion (or not?)
Critical approaches (Anna Leander)
Gender and Private Security
• Masculinity Studies
• Feminist International
Relations
• Feminist Security Studies
• Feminist State Theories
• Postcolonial Theory
• Critical Military Studies
Political Economies of Private Security
Security as Labour:
Feminist Global Political Economy (GPE) Global military labour chains/labour migration Gendered and racialised divisions of labour The invisible labour The everyday as constitutive of global security
markets
Martial Race and Private Security• Rooted in colonial
encounters• Biology as race• Construction of the
ideal military colonial solider
• Altered local political economies
• Continue to be preferred global South security contractors
Gurkhas in Private Security• 200 years military
service with the British• Constructed through
colonial martial race logic
• Racial heritage mediates the kinds of work they do
Gurkha Wives• Integral to the
military/security labour chains
• Militarised families
Militarising Women’s Labour
The supportive wives The grieving wives
Conclusions
• PMSCs are profoundly shaping security governance
• PMSCs are reconstructing global labour relations
• The security market reproduces gendered and racialised inequalities
• These security practices are constituted through the everyday
Routledge Handbook of Private Security Studies (ed. R. Abrahamsen, A. Leander)
Gender and Private Security in Global Politics (ed. M. Eichler)
newcastle.academia.edu/AmandaChisholm
homepage.univie.ac.at/saskia.stachowitsch
Further Reading
