What does gender got to do with it? PMSCs and privatization of security revisited

Jutta Joachim and Andrea Schneiker

Small Wars and Insurgencies, 2022, vol. 33, issue 1-2, 196-223

Abstract: While war and the military have been recognized as being gendered sites, Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) are only rarely studied through a gender lens. Compared to functional, political-instrumental or ideational explanations with respect to the privatization of security, such a lens captures, however, the micro-dynamic and political processes of PMSCs’ boom. We show that gender is, first, constitutive of companies’ corporate identities as hero warriors and professional security experts. Second, it is relational, (re-)producing hierarchical power relations among and within PMSCs and with state security actors. Third, gender is a legitimizing factor helping PMSCs to establish themselves as acceptable security actors vis-à-vis others.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1080/09592318.2021.1985690

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