CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Monteiro Sidney, Giovanna |
|---|---|
| Title | THE PRODUCTIVE POWER OF WOMEN, PEACE AND SECURITY IN BRAZIL: A militarizing, gendering and othering National Action Plan |
| Summary | Under the symbolic passing of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 1325, women and gender issues began to penetrate into the ‘high politics’ realm of peace and security. Last year, in support of the Resolution, Brazil conformed to the call for its’ internal implementation and launched its National Action Plan (NAP) on Women, Peace and Security (WPS). Through discourse analysis, I shall argue that the Brazilian NAP does not dismantle the militarized notion of peace and security, colluding with the UNSC practices and concepts that are deemed problematic from post-structural and post-colonial frameworks. This collusion becomes understandable when analyze Brazilian recent history, the use of its positionality and its international projection ambitions, thus promoting a militarized, neoliberal and neocolonial understanding of peace and security that aims to (re)produce a delineated political action which universalizes subjectivities rooted on both sex and ‘Third World’ differences, shaping the discursive power and (re)production of the hegemonic narratives of protection (or victimhood) and empowerment (or agency), as well as shaping the material responses to the agenda. |
| Supervisor | Smith, Sarah Jane |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/monteiro_giovanna.pdf |
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