CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2017
| Author | Gonzalez Sainz, Maria Jose |
|---|---|
| Title | Engendered Peacekeeping Operations: Transectional Masculinities and Sexual Violence in African Post-Conflict Settings |
| Summary | The post-Cold War disorder was undermined by the "New Humanism”, represented by the United Nations peacekeeping operations through the figure of the humanitarian hero. In the beginning of the XXI century, different media reports came out showing some of the negative impacts of peacekeeping in local settings. As a result, many feminist scholars started to analyze peacekeepers' engagement in violence against women and girls from different perspectives. The majority of them focus in the construction of masculinities and femininities within the UN and the impact of those gendered relations in the local settings. This side of the debate explains that peacekeepers’ engagement in violence is mainly because of a “hegemonic militarized masculinity” that influences their performances negatively. On the other hand, other scholars contest this notion by exploring heterogeneity within peacekeeping operations and peacekeepers’ agency in post-conflict settings. In this sense, this research will use a transectional approach to analyze how transectional gender macro-practices impact peacekeepers’ performances, and how they influence peacekeepers’ engagement, or not, in violence against local women and girls. |
| Supervisor | Roe, Paul |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2017/gonzalez-sainz_maria.pdf |
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