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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)
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Popular Imaginings of Security Contractors
• White• Western• Male• Heterosexual• Hi-Tech Weaponry• Violent• Professional
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Media Scandals: Contractor Violence and Gender-based
Exploitation
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Self-Representations of the Industry
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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
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The Austrian Case
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Academic Inquiries
Historical perspectives
Regulation, accountability
Implications for democracy and policy
State erosion (or not?)
Critical approaches (Anna Leander)
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Gender and Private Security
• Masculinity Studies
• Feminist International
Relations
• Feminist Security Studies
• Feminist State Theories
• Postcolonial Theory
• Critical Military Studies
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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
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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
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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
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Gurkha Wives• Integral to the
military/security labour chains
• Militarised families
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Militarising Women’s Labour
The supportive wives The grieving wives
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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
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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