An Analysis of the gendered, racialized and colonial narratives that underlie the Swiss National Action Plans (NAPs) to implement the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda INTRODUCTION “To understand policy and its effects we have to ask where power lies and how it is exercised” (Chomsky, 1999, p.20). In his examination of the neoliberal world order, Chomsky (1999) analyses the U.S. domination over Latin American societies. Whilst he is looking at how neoliberal doctrines ar

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Written for the Course "Sexuality, Gender and Culture" at London School of Economics. This article has been published in a modified form by the Solidarity Collective : https://solidaritycollective.com/2021/01/08/audre-lordes-concept-of-the-erotic-as-power-evaluated-in-relation-to-contemporary-queer-feminist-pornography/ INTRODUCTION “The Sex Wars is generally understood as a conflict between feminists who were against pornography and certain sexual practices, e.g. s/m, and ‘s

Why is there a need to decolonise gender and human rights? INTRODUCTION Always in transition, gender and human rights are highly contested concepts (Akoth, 2014). There is an urgent need “now, more than at any time before, for a multiple vocality in the documenting and reading of human rights” (Akoth, 2014, p.103). This is mainly because the idea of human rights gained unprecedented popularity in the 20th century; the 20th century is the century of human rights. Yet, more hum

Written for the Course "Gender and Militarisation" at London School of Economics. INTRODUCTION This essay is divided into two parts: each of them consists of a diary entry and a subsequent theoretical discussion of a topic related to the course GI413. In the first part, I make use of sections of the movie Hacksaw Ridge as a starting point to discuss the concept of ‘military masculinity’. The second part of the essay centres around the phenomena of how women in ‘wars’ are repr

Is the concept of coloniality necessary for the studies of gender theories? INTRODUCTION As we learned throughout this term, gender studies are interdisciplinary and political. Feminist scholars ask questions about contradictions, paradoxes and ambivalences and most of the concepts are highly contested, controversial and always in transformation. Therefore, I won´t provide any fixed definitions of concepts throughout the following remarks, but rather discuss and evaluate usef

Written for the course "Women, Peace and Security" at London School of Economics. INTRODUCTION “Women have always participated in peace negotiations and peacebuilding, but always at the informal level and rarely visible to the formal peacemakers. […] As a result, a great deal of effort and programming at the international level has gone into including women in formal peace processes” (Coomaraswamy, 2015, p.40). Since the launch of the United Nations Security Council’s (UNSC)

This essay was written for the course "feminist theory", Department for Sociology, University of Bern. Introduction “Something had happened in the last 20 years, where women are no longer trained to serve a man, to submit a man. The very idea of beauty and aesthetics is being demolished, to where, now, women are applauded and encouraged to look like fat outer-space cyborgs. Women and gays are seen as superior to straight men. Anything that a woman or a gay person wants is the