(Re)framing the Relationship between Discourse and Materiality in Feminist Security Studies and Feminist IPE

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Hudson, Heidi (2015) (Re)framing the Relationship between Discourse and Materiality in Feminist Security Studies and Feminist IPE, Politics & Gender 11 (2): 413–419.

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While feminists usually try to ground the meanings that they study, theorizing the mundane or the everyday may very well represent a detour—or even a dead end—if bread-and-butter issues related to the security and economic well-being of ordinary women and men are ignored. What value does feminist theorizing (even if it draws from women's lived experiences) have in war-affected contexts where meeting immediate needs is paramount? At what point does the theorizing of the body under such circumstances become a means to satisfying intellectual fetishes? Theorizing the everyday is messy because it has to contend with the immediate social setting in which popular culture is inseparable from the economic materiality of the conditions of oppression.

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