| Reading Title:
Nuclear (in)security in the every day: Peace campers as everyday security practitioners |
| Key Words:
Anti-nuclear, critical security studies, every day, (in)security, feminism, the peace movement |
| Research Question:
Does the case study demonstrate everyday security practitioners’ utility and indicated ways it could be further refined? |
| Summary of Argument:
The author focuses on a critical study on everyday security emerging in line with nuclear (in)security through an empirical study of anti-nuclear peace activists understood .the author focuses on the possibilities of rethinking nuclear (in)security recent efforts to bring critical scrutiny of daily lives. The author notes that British territory security is achieved through the possession of nuclear weapons. He argues that anthropologies have been left with the task of picking up Con and Endo baton and developing ethnographies of the daily routines and concrete social. The author extends the analytical framework developed by previous scholars. |
| Core Arguments:
Arguably, the author argues that anti-nuclear peace camps offer a particularly fruitful site for everyday practitioners’ study. The flavors this with a brief narrative of is the most recent visit to the camp. Additionally, the author seeks to draw out the contrast with the dominant deterrence approach. |
| Position:
The author proposes that reserving the term everyday security. |
| Questions:
Is the view of insecurity shared universally? What other alternatives practices have the campers developed to create a more secure every day? |
Introduction to International Relations and Global Politics (4PIRS009W)
Reading Notes Template
| Reading Title:
Contesting the masculine state |
| Key Words:
Cowardice, Conscientious objection, Military service |
| Research Question:
Does a militarized state devote considerable cultural, legal, and discursive resources to perpetuating masculinities’ militarization? |
| Summary of Argument:
The author notes that men who feel anxious about serving are likely made to feel they are unreasonable. He adds that apartheid in South Africa arose tension between masculinities and militarization upon settlers. The author analyses the discursive and material means by which the apartheid state militarized masculinity.
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| Core Arguments:
The author claims that the apartheid state was a conglomerate of shifting, sometimes questioning, and surprising masculinity and sexuality discourses. More so, the author argues that it is about time to suggest a provocative pairing of Connell’s hegemonic masculinities thesis.
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| Position:
The author stands on a decision that all this is an ambivalent practice. |
| Questions:
Did the presence of white men refusing to serve presented themselves as a true symbol of the nation towards threatening conglomeration. Was self-narratives the concept of having made a break from the white society? |
| Reading Title:
National Myths and the creation of heroes |
| Key Words:
National identities, Post-conflict societies, ender reconstitution. |
| Research Question:
How are national identities constituted in past conflict societies? How does gender work in this reconstitution? |
| Summary of Argument:
The author uses the article to explore the fluidity of masculinism and masculinities and the importance of policing boundaries to maintain the link between masculinism and power. The author explores three common trends within the discourse on masculinities. |
| Core Arguments:
The author argues that it is now time to suggest a provocative pairing of Connell’s hegemonic masculinity thesis. Additionally, he asks Zani about the rumors of rape by Kla soldiers’ argues that violence and aggression may be displayed to meet the expectations of the nation and to move broadly to meet the hegemonic notions. |
| Position:
The author using Kosovo suggests the embodiment of the most hegemonically masculine figure. |
| Questions:
Is it significant that objectors who had been to jail were considered to have legitimacy? Are homosexual relationships always violent? |