Speaker
Description
Non-traditional security challenges are on the rise due, in part, to a growing far-right that interlinks with cyber(in)security. This includes the phenomenon of tradwives, or so-called traditional wives, a growing global movement with origins in the west, who actively further male supremacism, militarism and other forms of violence, even as they are seen as silly and/or non-political. The paper asks: How do tradwives further violent extremism and disinformation through their propaganda? The paper also asks whether the tradwife movement is bolstering societal recognition and appreciation of social reproduction, something that its propaganda suggests that the movement does. From a feminist peace and security perspective that draws on critical terrorism studies, the article examines the understudied yet pivotal role of tradwives in promoting violence and disinformation that feeds not simply essentialized and binary gender norms but highly militarized ones, which contribute to gendered strategic cultures that encourage gendered nationalisms and militarisms. Despite tradwives’ claims otherwise, the paper contests the notion that the movement furthers the value of social reproduction, which is the daily labor that produces and sustains life, carried out overwhelmingly by women and girls globally, and challenges the idea that it is feminists who undermine caring.
| If you are submitting an Open Panel proposal, have you included all four abstracts in attachment? | No, I am submitting a Closed Panel abstract |
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| Would you like to be considered for travel funding through the NetSec COST Action? | Yes |
| Are you a member of the NetSec Management Committee? | No |
| What discipline or branch of humanities or social sciences do you identify yourself with? | International Relations |
| Which of the following best describes your stage of the career? | Assistant Professor |
| In which country is your home institution? | Türkiye |
| What is your gender? | Female |