An intersectional study of gender and the Royal Air Force

作为具有自己特定结构和组织文化的性别机构，军队通过建立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(Woodward和Duncanson，2017)。尽管如此，值得注意的是，关于性别或众多其他相互冲突和相互竞争的军事人员身份如何影响英国武装部队性别文化的社会结构和空间性的当代批评性描述是明显缺乏的。在地理研究背景下，英国武装部队通常被视为同质的，但正是每个组织结构的复杂性影响着每个军种独特的社会和组织文化以及取决于军衔、角色和职业的亚文化。通过考察女性服役人员和女性退伍军人的主观体验，本研究将通过性别轴线的横截面视角，考察性别身份和种族主义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。为了确认申请者作为退伍军人皇家空军军官的职位，反身性将支持数据收集，使其与关键军事研究中关于退伍军人研究人员独特地位和贡献的当前思维保持一致。

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.