GI413      Half Unit
Gender, Race and Militarisation

This information is for the 2024/25 session.

Teacher responsible

Dr Hakan Sandal-Wilson

Availability

This course is available on the MPhil/PhD in Gender, MSc in Comparative Politics, MSc in Gender, MSc in Gender (Research), MSc in Gender (Rights and Human Rights), MSc in Gender (Sexuality), MSc in Gender, Development and Globalisation, MSc in Gender, Peace and Security, MSc in Gender, Policy and Inequalities, MSc in Human Rights, MSc in Human Rights and Politics, MSc in International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies, MSc in International Relations (Research) and MSc in Political Science (Conflict Studies and Comparative Politics). This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.

This course has a limited number of places (it is controlled access) and demand is typically very high. Priority is given to Department of Gender Studies students. 

Course content

This course will provide students with a critical introduction to militarisation and its gendered and racialised basis and effects. Students will be introduced to theories of militarisation and martial politics; militarised masculinities and femininities; different geopolitical experiences of violence and war; 'diversity' issues within a variety of national militaries; racialised representations of gender and terror; the global colour -line and gendered division of labour in peacekeeping; and the global politics of peace and anti-militarism activities.

Teaching

This course runs in the WT. This course has a reading week in Week 6 of WT.

Formative coursework

Written exercise  in the WT

Indicative reading

• Cockburn, C. (2012) Anti-militarism: political and gender dynamics of peace movements, Palgrave.

• Sjoberg, L., and S. Via, eds. (2010) Gender, war, and militarism: Feminist perspectives. New York: Praeger Security International

• Zillah Eisenstein. (2007). Sexual Decoys: Gender, Race, and War in Imperial Democracy. London, UK: Zed Books.

• Cynthia Enloe. (2000). Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

• Robin Riley and Naeem Inayatullah. (2006). Interrogating Imperialism: Conversations on Gender, Race, and War. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.

Assessment

Project (100%, 3000 words) in the ST.

Student performance results

(2020/21 - 2022/23 combined)

Classification % of students
Distinction 31.4
Merit 60
Pass 8.6
Fail 0

Key facts

Department: Gender Studies

Total students 2023/24: 49

Average class size 2023/24: 16

Controlled access 2023/24: Yes

Value: Half Unit

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Personal development skills

  • Leadership
  • Self-management
  • Team working
  • Problem solving
  • Application of information skills
  • Communication