[TimorLesteStudies] New article: 'Cowboy’ Policing versus ‘the Softer Stuff

[Bu Wilson]

Marianne Bevan & Megan H. MacKenzie (2012): ‘Cowboy’ Policing
versus ‘the Softer Stuff’, International Feminist Journal of Politics, 14:4, 508-528 
 
To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2012.726095 




Abstract

 
This article examines masculinities in relation to the New Zealand police force Commu-
nity Policing Pilot Program in Timor-Leste (East Timor). We find that despite calls for
less militarized, more community-centered approaches to security sector reform,
various forms of militarized masculinities persisted within the culture of the New
Zealand Police during its international mission. In doing so, we not only complicate
singular representations of militarized masculinity, but also challenge accounts that
see masculinity as a monolithic negative, violent construct that is engaged with in
only problematic ways. 

 

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