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The Silenced and Indispensible: GURKHAS IN PRIVATE MILITARY SECURITY COMPANIES

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Amanda Chisholm

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Abstract

Using postcolonial analysis coupled with fieldwork in both Afghanistan and Nepal, I argue that contemporary colonial relations within private security make possible a gender and racial hierarchy of security contractors. This hierarchy of contractors results in vastly different conditions of possibilities depending on the contractors' histories and nationalities. Empirically documenting perspectives from Gurkhas, constituted as third country national (TCNs) security contractors, this article contributes to the existing critical theory and gender in both private military security company literature and postcolonial studies by (1) providing a needed racial and gendered analysis from the position of the racialized security contractors and (2) empirically documenting a growing subaltern group of men participating as security contractors.

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Author(s): Chisholm A

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: International Feminist Journal of Politics

Year: 2014

Volume: 16

Issue: 1

Pages: 26-47

Print publication date: 01/01/2014

Online publication date: 14/05/2013

Date deposited: 23/01/2015

ISSN (print): 1461-6742

ISSN (electronic): 1468-4470

Publisher: Routledge

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2013.781441

DOI: 10.1080/14616742.2013.781441

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