The female ‘boot on the ground’: Indian ambivalence over gender mainstreaming in UN peacekeeping operations
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- dc.contributor.author Klossek, Lara
- dc.contributor.author Johansson-Nogués, Elisabeth
- dc.date.accessioned 2021-11-17T09:32:27Z
- dc.date.available 2021-11-17T09:32:27Z
- dc.date.issued 2021
- dc.description.abstract The Indian government has presented itself as a champion of gender mainstreaming in UN peacekeeping. At the same time, the domestic security sector in India continues to create a gender-segregated environment and experiences of uniformed women in the field show remaining barriers for gender equity. Given this contradiction, the article examines the ambivalence inherent to Indian gender mainstreaming of peacekeeping units. We argue that transnational norms, such as gender mainstreaming, are embedded in larger norm bundles, and we combine the literature of norm localization and norm contestation in our conceptual framework to illustrate how India localizes parts of the gender mainstreaming norm bundle whilst contesting others. We find that India’s localization of the gender mainstreaming norm has meant to pursue an asymmetric gender-parity approach between different branches of the Indian security forces and that it has fomented a division of labour within the police corps. Moreover, we illustrate how India contests the idea of placing women in security-sensitive areas, in combat roles, and gender-integrated police units.
- dc.description.sponsorship This work was supported by the European Commissions's Horizon 2020 programme (Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Training Network ‘Global India’ (www.globalindia.eu)) under grant 722446.
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- dc.identifier.citation Klossek L, Johansson-Nogués E. The female ‘boot on the ground’: Indian ambivalence over gender mainstreaming in UN peacekeeping operations. International Peacekeeping. 2021;28(4):527-52. DOI: 10.1080/13533312.2021.1880899
- dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13533312.2021.1880899
- dc.identifier.issn 1353-3312
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/49003
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher Taylor & Francis
- dc.relation.ispartof International Peacekeeping. 2021;28(4):527-52
- dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/722446
- dc.rights © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
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- dc.subject.keyword India
- dc.subject.keyword Peacekeeping
- dc.subject.keyword Gender mainstreaming
- dc.subject.keyword UN Resolution 1325
- dc.title The female ‘boot on the ground’: Indian ambivalence over gender mainstreaming in UN peacekeeping operations
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