Papers by Jillian Terry
International Feminist Journal of Politics, 2013
The transmission and interpretation of information generated from full-body scanners
is increasi... more The transmission and interpretation of information generated from full-body scanners
is increasingly becoming a site of contestation in airport security queues all over the
world. Body scanning technology raises questions surrounding the rights of governments to images of human bodies, acts of surveillance and to what extent technologies such as full-body scanners are helping to make us more ‘secure’ – or are disadvantaging particular groups of bodies. We examine the use of full-body scanners and their consequences from a feminist perspective, demonstrating how the scanners constitute both a ‘gendered technology’ and a ‘gendered practice’. In addition we present a typology outlining several forms of feminist resistance that have manifested in reaction to the use of this technology. While these acts do not necessarily pose an overt challenge to the larger airport security structure, as they occur within rigidly defined boundaries, they do offer the space for individuals to exercise some autonomy and control over their bodies. By engaging with feminist security scholarship as well as theoretical approaches concerned with reclaiming the ‘everyday’ as a space for feminist agency, we begin to unravel the complicated web of full-body scanning technology.
Books by Jillian Terry
This chapter brings the field of feminist ethics together with
the growing body of critical schol... more This chapter brings the field of feminist ethics together with
the growing body of critical scholarship in international
relations devoted to examining the impact of private military
and security companies (PMSCs) in order to assess the
complex moral and ethical implications of employing private
force in contemporary war. It argues that using a feminist
ethical framework premised on empathy and responsibility
acknowledges the relational and contextual nature of PMSC
employees’ lived experiences, resulting in a more complex and
varied set of moral uncertainties than existing analyses have
suggested when stressing individualistic and self-motivated
ethical dilemmas. Rather than articulate a set of abstract
moral principles from which to make judgments about private
force, this framework exposes the ethical ambiguities present
in contemporary PMSC realities and demonstrates the
relevance of empathy and responsibility in thinking about the
changing nature of modern warfare.
Book Reviews by Jillian Terry
View related articles egregious and criminal behaviour in various western states. Focusing on the... more View related articles egregious and criminal behaviour in various western states. Focusing on the vulnerability of women in the developing world and not in the developed world replicates some colonialist perspectives: the West works and the non-West does not.
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Papers by Jillian Terry
is increasingly becoming a site of contestation in airport security queues all over the
world. Body scanning technology raises questions surrounding the rights of governments to images of human bodies, acts of surveillance and to what extent technologies such as full-body scanners are helping to make us more ‘secure’ – or are disadvantaging particular groups of bodies. We examine the use of full-body scanners and their consequences from a feminist perspective, demonstrating how the scanners constitute both a ‘gendered technology’ and a ‘gendered practice’. In addition we present a typology outlining several forms of feminist resistance that have manifested in reaction to the use of this technology. While these acts do not necessarily pose an overt challenge to the larger airport security structure, as they occur within rigidly defined boundaries, they do offer the space for individuals to exercise some autonomy and control over their bodies. By engaging with feminist security scholarship as well as theoretical approaches concerned with reclaiming the ‘everyday’ as a space for feminist agency, we begin to unravel the complicated web of full-body scanning technology.
Books by Jillian Terry
the growing body of critical scholarship in international
relations devoted to examining the impact of private military
and security companies (PMSCs) in order to assess the
complex moral and ethical implications of employing private
force in contemporary war. It argues that using a feminist
ethical framework premised on empathy and responsibility
acknowledges the relational and contextual nature of PMSC
employees’ lived experiences, resulting in a more complex and
varied set of moral uncertainties than existing analyses have
suggested when stressing individualistic and self-motivated
ethical dilemmas. Rather than articulate a set of abstract
moral principles from which to make judgments about private
force, this framework exposes the ethical ambiguities present
in contemporary PMSC realities and demonstrates the
relevance of empathy and responsibility in thinking about the
changing nature of modern warfare.
Book Reviews by Jillian Terry
Blog Posts by Jillian Terry
is increasingly becoming a site of contestation in airport security queues all over the
world. Body scanning technology raises questions surrounding the rights of governments to images of human bodies, acts of surveillance and to what extent technologies such as full-body scanners are helping to make us more ‘secure’ – or are disadvantaging particular groups of bodies. We examine the use of full-body scanners and their consequences from a feminist perspective, demonstrating how the scanners constitute both a ‘gendered technology’ and a ‘gendered practice’. In addition we present a typology outlining several forms of feminist resistance that have manifested in reaction to the use of this technology. While these acts do not necessarily pose an overt challenge to the larger airport security structure, as they occur within rigidly defined boundaries, they do offer the space for individuals to exercise some autonomy and control over their bodies. By engaging with feminist security scholarship as well as theoretical approaches concerned with reclaiming the ‘everyday’ as a space for feminist agency, we begin to unravel the complicated web of full-body scanning technology.
the growing body of critical scholarship in international
relations devoted to examining the impact of private military
and security companies (PMSCs) in order to assess the
complex moral and ethical implications of employing private
force in contemporary war. It argues that using a feminist
ethical framework premised on empathy and responsibility
acknowledges the relational and contextual nature of PMSC
employees’ lived experiences, resulting in a more complex and
varied set of moral uncertainties than existing analyses have
suggested when stressing individualistic and self-motivated
ethical dilemmas. Rather than articulate a set of abstract
moral principles from which to make judgments about private
force, this framework exposes the ethical ambiguities present
in contemporary PMSC realities and demonstrates the
relevance of empathy and responsibility in thinking about the
changing nature of modern warfare.