Show simple item record

dc.contributor.authorDonovan, O
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-22T22:39:29Z
dc.date.available2021-09-22T22:39:29Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.issn1875-9858
dc.identifier.doi10.1163/1875-984X-13020016
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/408219
dc.description.abstractMuch has been written on the 2011 intervention in Libya and its implications to the R2P principle, but we know less about the lived experience of protection in a context where the post-intervention responsibility for protecting civilians was quickly transferred to the interim authorities who had limited governance capacity. This has resulted in 'localised protection' where militias, tribal elders, and family members constitute the main actors providing protection to their respective communities. Although this is in line with the growing emphasis on local ownership underwriting UN and donor discourse, a troubling upshot of the localised protection is that it often disempowers, and at times subjects the protected to further insecurity and violence. The aim of this analysis is to explore this dynamic of protection and insecurity. I draw on feminist theorising of the masculine protection logic and argue that civilians in Libya negotiate multiple, gendered protection bargains that often produce perverse outcomes, by subjecting the 'protected' to renewed or increased insecurities, rather than reducing them.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.publisherBrill
dc.relation.ispartofjournalGlobal Responsibility to Protect
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPolitical science
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4408
dc.titleTrading freedoms for protection: Gender and localised protection in Libya
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dcterms.bibliographicCitationDonovan, O, Trading freedoms for protection: Gender and localised protection in Libya, Global Responsibility to Protect, 2021
dc.date.updated2021-09-21T23:24:01Z
gro.description.notepublicThis publication has been entered as an advanced online version in Griffith Research Online.
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorDonovan, Outi E.


Files in this item

FilesSizeFormatView

There are no files associated with this item.

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

  • Journal articles
    Contains articles published by Griffith authors in scholarly journals.

Show simple item record