The gendered politics of researching military policy in the age of the ‘knowledge economy’
The gendered politics of researching military policy in the age of the ‘knowledge economy’
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DOI：
10.1017/s0260210521000036
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发表时间：
2021-02
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3
通讯作者：
Sergio Catignani;Victoria M. Basham
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作者：
Sergio Catignani;Victoria M. Basham
摘要本文探讨了我们对英国陆军预备役进行女性主义解释性研究的经验。该项目研究了预备役人员面临的日常工作-军队-生活平衡挑战，以及他们的伴侣/配偶在使他们能够履行军事承诺方面的作用，是对所谓的“知识经济”的潜在贡献的一个例子，公共资助的研究已被视为政治，军事，经济和社会进步的“功能”。作为女性主义解释研究人员，我们正在研究一个奖励男性主义和功能主义方法论、工具化知识生产和高度正式化的伦理审批流程的机构，我们面临着如何进行研究、我们能够接触到谁以及我们能够说什么的多重挑战。我们展示了军事假设是如何构成适当的“研究”，知识经济逻辑的支持下，加强性别权力关系，保持隐藏的重要角色的妇女（在我们的情况下，合作伙伴/配偶的预备役军人）在国家安全中发挥。因此，我们认为，功能主义和男性主义的逻辑解释的研究人员在知识经济时代面临的帮助更多地在维持正统的知识生产模式的军事和安全，并在加强性别权力关系，比他们在推进知识。
Abstract This article explores our experiences of conducting feminist interpretive research on the British Army Reserves. The project, which examined the everyday work-Army-life balance challenges that reservists face, and the roles of their partners/spouses in enabling them to fulfil their military commitments, is an example of a potential contribution to the so-called ‘knowledge economy’, where publicly funded research has come to be seen as ‘functional’ for political, military, economic, and social advancement. As feminist interpretive researchers examining an institution that prizes masculinist and functionalist methodologies, instrumentalised knowledge production, and highly formalised ethics approval processes, we faced multiple challenges to how we were able to conduct our research, who we were able to access, and what we were able to say. We show how military assumptions about what constitutes proper ‘research’, bolstered by knowledge economy logics, reinforces gendered power relationships that keep hidden the significant roles women (in our case, the partners/spouses of reservists) play in state security. Accordingly, we argue that the functionalist and masculinist logics interpretive researchers face in the age of the knowledge economy help more in sustaining orthodox modes of knowledge production about militaries and security, and in reinforcing gendered power relations, than they do in advancing knowledge.