Evaluating the Impact of Linguistic Diversity on Women in Security Programmes

尽管通信技术取得了前所未有的进步，但由于语言不平等和政策和实践中持续的欧洲中心主义，太多的人继续被排除在外。女权主义安全研究一直与语言政策和翻译研究脱节，导致性别、安全和多语言使用之间的交叉问题得不到解决。检查安全研究中的这一盲点对全世界妇女的权利和安全具有重要的实际意义。从性别角度看待语言冷漠问题尤为重要，因为性别扫盲差距和教育不平等使女性处于不成比例的不利地位。在安全学术和实践中，缺乏对诸如代码转换、多语制和语言地位等交际复杂性的认识，可能会掩盖除性别歧视外，由于语言使用而通过“他者化”将妇女排斥在外的交叉原因。这项研究的目的是揭示在协商阶段和政策传播阶段的安全方案，如国家行动计划（nap）中需要考虑语言因素。这项工作将促成关于丰富语言工作的有益知识交流，并旨在提出建议或工具包，概述在语言多样化的社会中有效沟通妇女安全需求的战略。在安全学者中，自下而上的政策制定和与当地公民社会的合作现在被广泛认为是至关重要的，然而，在该领域，单一语言制度和语言冷漠的持续主导地位可能会限制参与，并将许多妇女排除在外。研究问题：妇女在安全方案中的参与和代表是否受到高度语言多样性的影响？单语做法和语言偏见在多大程度上阻碍了在协商阶段纳入某些妇女的声音？缺乏对少数民族语言的翻译是否会导致缺乏对妇女权利的认识，并降低政策文件对基层组织的效用？

Despite unprecedented advances in communications technologies, too many people continue to be excluded on account of language inequities and continuing Eurocentrism in policy and praxis. Feminist security scholarship has remained disconnected from language policy and translation research, leaving the intersection between gender, security, and multilingualism unaddressed. Examining this blind spot in security studies has important practical implications for women's rights and safety across the world. Approaching the question of language indifference with a gender lens is particularly crucial, since gender literacy gaps and educational inequalities leave women disproportionately disadvantaged. The lack of recognition, in security scholarship and practice, of communicative complexities such as code-switching, plurilingualism and language status may disguise the intersecting causes of women's exclusion through 'othering' on account of language use in addition to sexism. This research aims to reveal the need for linguistic considerations in security programmes, such as National Action Plans (NAPs), both at the consultation stage and in the dissemination of policy. This work will result in a beneficial knowledge exchange regarding language-rich working and aim to produce recommendations or a toolkit, outlining strategies for effective communication of women's security needs in linguistically diverse societies. Bottom-up policy making and collaboration with indigenous civil society are now widely considered crucial among security scholars, yet the continued dominance of institutional monolingualism and language indifference in the field is likely to limit engagement and exclude many women.Research Questions:Is women's participation and representation in security programmes affected by high linguistic diversity?i. To what extent do monolingual practices and linguistic biases inhibit the inclusion of certain women's voices at the consultation stage?ii. Does the lack of translation into minoritised languages contribute to a lack of awareness of women's rights and reduce the utility of policy documents for grassroots organisations?