New Episode! đź’ś With the Nuclear Ban Treaty taking effect this week, how significant is this and the NPT international law treaties from a gender and postcolonial perspectives?
Where do we stand as women from nuclear and non-nuclear states?
What is our view on national security, the missing elements beyond the binaries’ approaches and how is Realism, Liberalism and Feminist IR Theories dancing against (or together!) in nuclear politics?
Join us in this exploration, listen to the episode and follow the conversation on Instagram: @womanhood_ir
Recommended links
- TPNW Entry of Force - International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons: https://www.icanw.org/entryintoforce
- Why does the Nuclear Ban Treaty matter? https://www.icrc.org/en/document/why-nuclear-ban-treaty-matters
- Sex, Gender and Nuclear Weapons: https://wilpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Sex-Gender-and-Nuclear-Weapons_Ray-Acheson.pdf
- CFFP Advocacy Brief - Gender Lens on Nuclear Disarmament: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57cd7cd9d482e9784e4ccc34/t/5afa9f602b6a28d174341508/1526374240733/CFFP+May+Brief+Nuclear+Weapons.pdf
- Missile Envy, Helen Caldicott: https://www.amazon.com/Missile-envy-arms-race-nuclear/dp/0553193848
- Global nuclear policy is stuck in colonialist thinking. The ban treaty offers a way out: https://thebulletin.org/2021/01/global-nuclear-policy-is-stuck-in-colonialist-thinking-the-ban-treaty-offers-a-way-out/#:~:text=While%20the%20current%20system%20regulating,dangerous%2C%20post%2Dcolonial%20direction
- Postcolonial Perspectives on Nuclear Non-Proliferation, Alex Chung: http://web.isanet.org/Web/Conferences/ISSS%20Austin%202014/Archive/253053b8-52cd-4251-8a5d-1dd0163cb460.pdf
- Documentary Bikini Islands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjqoiT-RS4A
- 5th July 1946: The bikini swimsuit introduced for the first time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSDH8t7n7qM
- Still Here Campaign - Hiroshima, Nagasaki: https://www.hiroshimanagasaki75.org/
- PEAC Institute: https://www.peacinstitute.org/love_in_action
