TY - JOUR

T1 - (S)he Shall Not Be Moved

T2 - Gender, Bodies, and Travel Rights in the Post-9/11 Era

AU - Sjoberg, Laura

PY - 2015/4/14

Y1 - 2015/4/14

N2 - Using examples from the gendered targeting of airport security assemblages post-9/11, this article points out that the travelable body is straight; healthy; identifiable in sex, gender and race; not clearly religious; and, depending on where it is in the world, of a particular race and/or ethnicity. This article looks at the securitized production of the travelable body through gender lenses. It reads several key changes in people’s rights to movement as gendered, as significant and as signifying fundamental changes in (gendered) security orders. Particularly, building on Cynthia Enloe’s use of the idea of secure states containing insecure women to critique both the actual security of the state and women’s position in it, this article makes the argument that the gendered violations of people’s rights to movement and bodily integrity post-9/11 is a step backwards both for human security within the state and for the national security of the state.

AB - Using examples from the gendered targeting of airport security assemblages post-9/11, this article points out that the travelable body is straight; healthy; identifiable in sex, gender and race; not clearly religious; and, depending on where it is in the world, of a particular race and/or ethnicity. This article looks at the securitized production of the travelable body through gender lenses. It reads several key changes in people’s rights to movement as gendered, as significant and as signifying fundamental changes in (gendered) security orders. Particularly, building on Cynthia Enloe’s use of the idea of secure states containing insecure women to critique both the actual security of the state and women’s position in it, this article makes the argument that the gendered violations of people’s rights to movement and bodily integrity post-9/11 is a step backwards both for human security within the state and for the national security of the state.

KW - sex

KW - gender

KW - sexuality

KW - embodiment

KW - airports

KW - movement

KW - travel

KW - terrorism

KW - security

KW - international relations

KW - feminist IR

U2 - 10.1057/sj.2015.4

DO - 10.1057/sj.2015.4

M3 - Article

VL - 28

SP - 198

EP - 215

JO - Security Journal

JF - Security Journal

ER -