Non-combatants on the 'front line': British Army control of servicewomen's war labour in Northern Ireland
“前线”的非战斗人员:英国陆军控制北爱尔兰女兵的战争劳工
基本信息
- 批准号:ES/X007006/1
- 负责人:
- 金额:$ 11.62万
- 依托单位:
- 依托单位国家:英国
- 项目类别:Fellowship
- 财政年份:2022
- 资助国家:英国
- 起止时间:2022 至 无数据
- 项目状态:已结题
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项目摘要
British servicewomen are largely invisible in the public story of the Northern Ireland conflict and where they do appear they are assumed to have had largely supporting roles distant from the fighting. As a former servicewoman I have been privileged to have been able to speak with many female veterans of this conflict and their stories tell of operating on the 'front line'. Whether as policewomen with the Royal Ulster Constablulary or soldiers with the Ulster Defence Regiment, servicewomen were out on patrol night after night, being shot at and threatened despite, for much of the campaign, being unarmed and dressed in skirts (because it was felt a female profile would not be targeted by the IRA). In contrast, their counterparts from the Women's Royal Army Corps on covert operations were armed and were much less restricted in what they were allowed to do. My research exposes how servicewomen were unnecessarily put at risk due to policy decisions about uniform and equipment and the supposed protection by male colleagues was often inadequate.Throughout my interviews with women veterans of the Northern Ireland conflict, women's uniforms and bodies were an integral part of how they navigated the memories of their participation. Consequently, this fellowship includes a discrete pilot study to explore uniform and bodies in the context of servicewomen in Northern Ireland to try out new creative ways of working with veterans and as a stepping stone to future research. Facilitating a workshop with Northern Ireland veterans, I will encourage them to reflect on their experiences of the 'front line' through their bodies and uniform, using techniques such as body mapping which involves drawing around their own bodies and annotating these drawings with their reflections. From this workshop I will produce a short documentary film which will be screened at the Royal Irish Regiment Museum and the Royal Ulster Constabulary George Cross Foundation to stimulate public conversation challenging assumptions about the gendered nature of war. Through this fellowship I will be working on publishing a book based on my doctoral research which uses women's voices to tell their own stories of the 'front line' in the 1950s Malaya Emergency, the Troubles in Northern Ireland and in Afghanistan and interwoven with my own personal reflections on military service. The book will examine how the British Army controlled women through the ways in which they were represented in policy, in the media and in private conversations and letters and explores how they were excluded from the mainstream narratives of the conflict. I argue that servicewomen entered into a bargain with the British Army whereby they were co-opted into the military institution whilst simultaneously retaining some agency to resist and subvert. This research raises important questions about the extent of military power, how it is exercised over women and their agency to resist. By questioning whose voices are permitted to narrate war and whose are forgotten, this work challenges how the production of knowledge becomes a tool for military control. This fellowship will establish me as a leading early career researcher by developing my research skills through testing creative methods and completing film-making training which will prepare me for a future early career fellowship or grant. Beyond this postdoctoral fellowship I intend to build on the pilot study to submit an application for a research project entitled: 'Bodies of control: How the British military has used servicewomen's bodies to control their access to the "front line"'.
在北爱尔兰冲突的公开故事中,英国女军人基本上是看不见的,在她们出现的地方,她们被认为在很大程度上扮演了远离战斗的配角。作为一名退役军人,我有幸能够与许多参加过这场冲突的女退伍军人交谈,她们的故事讲述了她们在‘前线’作战的经历。无论是皇家阿尔斯特治安官的女警察还是阿尔斯特防卫团的士兵,女军人夜以继日地外出巡逻,遭到枪击和威胁,尽管在竞选的大部分时间里,她们手无寸铁,穿着裙子(因为人们认为女性形象不会成为爱尔兰共和军的目标)。相比之下,皇家陆军女子军团的秘密行动中的同行持有武器,在允许她们做什么方面受到的限制要少得多。我的研究揭示了,由于有关制服和装备的政策决定,服役女性是如何被不必要地置于危险之中的,而男性同事本应提供的保护往往是不够的。通过我对北爱尔兰冲突中的女退伍军人的采访,女性的制服和身体是她们如何驾驭参与的记忆的不可或缺的一部分。因此,这项研究金包括一项单独的试点研究,目的是在北爱尔兰军人妇女的背景下探索制服和身体,以尝试与退伍军人一起工作的新的创造性方法,并作为未来研究的垫脚石。为了与北爱尔兰退伍军人一起举办一个研讨会,我将鼓励他们通过身体和制服来反思他们在‘前线’的经历,使用身体映射等技术,这涉及到在他们的身体周围画画,并用他们的反思来注释这些画。从这次研讨会上,我将制作一部简短的纪录片,将在爱尔兰皇家军团博物馆和皇家阿尔斯特警察乔治·克罗斯基金会放映,以刺激公众对话,挑战关于战争性别性质的假设。通过这笔奖学金,我将致力于出版一本基于我的博士研究的书,这本书使用女性的声音来讲述她们自己在20世纪50年代马来亚紧急情况、北爱尔兰和阿富汗的动乱中的‘前线’故事,并与我个人对服兵役的反思交织在一起。这本书将研究英国军队如何通过妇女在政策、媒体、私人谈话和信件中的表现方式来控制她们,并探索她们如何被排除在冲突的主流叙事之外。我认为,女军人与英国军队达成了一项协议,她们被拉入军事机构,同时保留一些抵抗和颠覆的机构。这项研究提出了关于军事权力的程度、如何对女性行使军事权力以及她们的抵抗机构等重要问题。通过质疑谁的声音被允许讲述战争,谁的声音被遗忘,这部作品挑战了知识的生产如何成为军事控制的工具。这项奖学金将使我成为一名领先的早期职业研究员,通过测试创新方法和完成电影制作培训来发展我的研究技能,这将为我未来的早期职业奖学金或赠款做好准备。除了博士后奖学金之外,我还打算在试点研究的基础上提交一个研究项目的申请,该项目的标题是:《控制的机构:英国军队如何利用女兵的身体来控制她们进入前线的途径》。
项目成果
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A Negotiated Gender Order: British Army Control of Servicewomen in 'Front Line' Counterinsurgency, 1948-2014
协商的性别秩序:1948-2014 年英国陆军在“前线”反叛乱中对女军人的控制
- DOI:10.1080/17526272.2023.2188638
- 发表时间:2023
- 期刊:
- 影响因子:0.4
- 作者:West H
- 通讯作者:West H
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Hannah West其他文献
Reconstructing microvascular network skeletons from 3D images: What is the ground truth?
从三维图像重建微血管网络骨架:什么是基准真相?
- DOI:
10.1016/j.compbiomed.2024.108140 - 发表时间:
2024-03-01 - 期刊:
- 影响因子:6.300
- 作者:
Claire L. Walsh;Maxime Berg;Hannah West;Natalie A. Holroyd;Simon Walker-Samuel;Rebecca J. Shipley - 通讯作者:
Rebecca J. Shipley
Camp follower or counterinsurgent? Lady Templer and the forgotten wives
阵营追随者还是反叛乱分子?
- DOI:
- 发表时间:
2021 - 期刊:
- 影响因子:0.8
- 作者:
Hannah West - 通讯作者:
Hannah West
‘Deeply odd’: women veterans as critical feminist scholars
“非常奇怪”:女退伍军人作为批判女权主义学者
- DOI:
10.1080/23337486.2021.1907020 - 发表时间:
2021 - 期刊:
- 影响因子:0
- 作者:
Hannah West;Sophy Antrobus - 通讯作者:
Sophy Antrobus
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