Base women and beyond

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Deiana, Maria-Adriana and Eschle, Catherine and Frain, Sylvia C. and Kayser, Lis and Ómarsdóttir, Silja Bára R. and Taha, Hebatalla and Untalan, Carmina Yu (2025) Base women and beyond. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 27 (5). pp. 1135-1154. ISSN 1461-6742 (https://doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2025.2510495)

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Abstract

This conversation emerged from a workshop entitled 'Base Women and Beyond'. Since the initial publication of Cynthia Enloe's 'Base Women' (1989) there has emerged a lively, multidisciplinary field of what might be called 'base studies' which, however, remains largely gender blind. More surprisingly, Enloe’s analysis has not yet spawned a more systematic and collective research program on bases in feminist international relations (IR). This was a major motivation behind the exploratory workshop that we hosted in San Francisco in 2024 during the International Studies Association (ISA) annual convention, which brought together researchers working on past and present sites in Okinawa, Guam Hao, Israel, Iceland, Italy and Scotland. The workshop was intended as a first step toward a contemporary feminist research agenda on military/nuclear installations and their discontents, moving beyond feminist IR to also take inspiration from literature on coloniality and militarism/nuclearism, and on military landscapes and the ecology of ruination. We have organized our conversation into four main themes: specificities of and convergences between the research sites; the everyday and environmental aspects of the sites; their affective dimensions and legacies; and reflections on the ethical and positional challenges of the researcher.

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Deiana, Maria-Adriana, Eschle, Catherine ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4566-9176, Frain, Sylvia C., Kayser, Lis, Ómarsdóttir, Silja Bára R., Taha, Hebatalla and Untalan, Carmina Yu;
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