LEADER 03661oam 2200601I 450 001 9910155133403321 005 20240509161158.0 010 $a1-317-43839-6 010 $a1-315-69406-9 010 $a1-317-43840-X 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315694061 035 $a(CKB)4340000000023805 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4766950 035 $a(OCoLC)965826693 035 $a(BIP)52560967 035 $a(BIP)51981204 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000023805 100 $a20180706d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aGendering counterinsurgency $eperformativity, embodiment and experience in the Afghan 'theatre of war' /$fSynne L. Dyvik 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (169 pages) 225 1 $aWar, politics and experience 311 08$a1-138-90925-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Performing gender in the 'theatre of war' -- 2. Gendered invasions -- 3. Gendering the 'kinder, gentler' war -- 4. Embodying combat and fighting in counterinsurgency -- 5. A 'woman's touch' to counterinsurgency -- 6. Producing masculinities, justifying withdrawal. 330 $a This book analyses the various ways counterinsurgency in Afghanistan is gendered. The book examines the US led war in Afghanistan from 2001 onwards, including the invasion, the population-centric counterinsurgency operations and the efforts to train a new Afghan military charged with securing the country when the US and NATO withdrew their combat forces in 2014. Through an analysis of key counterinsurgency texts and military memoirs, the book explores how gender and counterinsurgency are co-constitutive in numerous ways. It discusses the multiple military masculinities that counterinsurgency relies on, the discourse of 'cultural sensitivity', and the deployment of Female Engagement Teams (FETs). Gendering Counterinsurgency demonstrates how population-centric counterinsurgency doctrine and practice can be captured within a gendered dynamic of 'killing and caring' - reliant on physical violence, albeit mediated through 'armed social work'. This simultaneously contradictory and complementary dynamic cannot be understood without recognising how the legitimation and the practice of this war relied on multiple gendered embodied performances of masculinities and femininities. Developing the concept of 'embodied performativity' this book shows how the clues to understanding counterinsurgency, as well as gendering war more broadly are found in war's everyday gendered manifestations. This book will be of much interest to students of counterinsurgency warfare, gender politics, governmentality, biopolitics, critical war studies, and critical security studies in general. 410 0$aWar, politics and experience. 606 $aAfghan War, 2001-2021$xSocial aspects 606 $aCounterinsurgency$zAfghanistan 606 $aAfghan War, 2001-2021$xWomen 606 $aWomen and war$zAfghanistan 606 $aMilitary doctrine$zUnited States 615 0$aAfghan War, 2001-2021$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aCounterinsurgency 615 0$aAfghan War, 2001-2021$xWomen. 615 0$aWomen and war 615 0$aMilitary doctrine 676 $a958.104/71 676 $a958.10471 700 $aDyvik$b Synne L.$0866928 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910155133403321 996 $aGendering counterinsurgency$91935093 997 $aUNINA