Marketing the Gurkha security package: Colonial histories and neoliberal economies of private security
Marketing the Gurkha security package: Colonial histories and neoliberal economies of private security
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DOI：
10.1177/0967010614535832
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发表时间：
2014-08-01
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Chisholm, Amanda
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作者：
Chisholm, Amanda
本文通过考察第三国国民（tcn）的性别主体性是如何通过殖民历史和新自由主义经济实践的交叉点构成的，为私营军事安全公司的现有批判理论和性别学术做出了贡献。关注廓尔喀承包商，我问为什么中国华人的薪酬和工作条件都不如业内的西方白人同行。这篇文章表明，廓尔喀人的工作条件来自他们在全球就业市场边缘的位置，这一劣势进一步被他们作为种族不发达主体的地位所影响。因此，他们在工业中的物质和文化地位——不管所讨论的个人的能力如何——被认为是顽固的殖民历史的结果，在更大的全球安全治理实践中，继续塑造来自全球南方的男性的劳动力市场机会，这些实践越来越多地以军事劳动外包为特征。
This article contributes to the existing critical theory and gender scholarship on private military security companies by examining how the gendered subjectivities of third-country nationals (TCNs) are constituted through the intersections of colonial histories and neoliberal economic practices. Focusing on Gurkha contractors, I ask how it is that both the remuneration and the working conditions of TCNs are inferior to those of their white Western peers within the industry. The article shows that Gurkhas' working conditions flow from their location on the periphery of global employment markets, a disadvantage that is further inflected by their status as racially underdeveloped subjects. Thus, their material and cultural status within the industry - regardless of the abilities of the individuals in question - is argued to be the outcome of tenacious colonial histories that continue to shape the labour-market opportunities of men from the global South within larger global security governance practices that increasingly feature outsourcing of military labour in operations.