An intersectional study of gender and the Royal Air Force

作为具有自身特定结构和组织文化的性别化机构，军队通过构建和复制规范以及制定管理个人活动的规则和政策来塑造其人员行为（伍德沃德和邓肯森，2017）。尽管如此，有一个显着缺乏当代的关键帐户如何性别，或众多其他冲突和竞争的交叉身份的军事人员影响社会建设和空间的性别文化的英国武装部队。英国武装部队在地理研究背景下经常被视为同质的，但它是每个组织结构的复杂性，影响每个服务的独特的社会和组织文化和亚文化依赖于等级，角色和职业。通过研究女性服务人员和女性退伍军人的主观经验，通过性别轴的交叉视角，本研究将探讨性别和种族身份的谈判和边缘化如何影响社会建设和英国皇家空军文化。在承认申请人的立场作为一个资深的英国皇家空军军官，反身性将巩固数据收集符合当前的思维在批判性军事研究的独特positionality和veteranresearchers的贡献。

As gendered institutions with their own specific structures and organisational cultures,militaries shape their personnel behaviour through the construction and reproduction ofnorms and the development of rules and policies governing individual activities(Woodward and Duncanson, 2017). Despite this, there is a notable absence ofcontemporary critical accounts of how gender, or the multitude of other conflicting andcompeting intersectional identities of military personnel impacts the social constructionand spatiality of the gender culture of UK Armed Forces. The UK Armed Forces are oftenviewed in geographical research contexts as homogenous, but it is the complexity behindeach organisational construct which impacts each service's unique social andorganisational culture and sub-culture dependant on rank, role and profession. Byexamining the subjective experiences of female service personnel and female veterans,with an intersectional perspective through a gendered axis, this research will examinehow the negotiation and marginalisation of gendered and racialised identities impact thesocial construction and RAF culture. In acknowledgement of the applicants position as aveteran RAF Officer, reflexivity will underpin data collection in line with current thinkingwithin Critical Military Studies about the unique positionality and contributions of veteranresearchers.