42. Nuclear Ban Treaty Begins: Gender & Postcolonial Perspectives

<p>New Episode! 💜 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?</p> <p>Where do we stand as women from nuclear and non-nuclear states?</p> <p>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?</p> <p>Join us in this exploration, listen to the episode and follow the conversation on Instagram: @womanhood_ir</p> <p><strong>Recommended links</strong></p> <ul> <li>TPNW Entry of Force - International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons: https://www.icanw.org/entryintoforce</li> <li>Why does the Nuclear Ban Treaty matter? https://www.icrc.org/en/document/why-nuclear-ban-treaty-matters</li> <li>Sex, Gender and Nuclear Weapons: <a href="https://wilpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Sex-Gender-and-Nuclear-Weapons_Ray-Acheson.pdf">https://wilpf.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Sex-Gender-and-Nuclear-Weapons_Ray-Acheson.pdf</a></li> <li>CFFP Advocacy Brief - Gender Lens on Nuclear Disarmament: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/57cd7cd9d482e9784e4ccc34/t/5afa9f602b6a28d174341508/1526374240733/CFFP+May+Brief+Nuclear+Weapons.pdf</li> <li>Missile Envy, Helen Caldicott: https://www.amazon.com/Missile-envy-arms-race-nuclear/dp/0553193848</li> <li>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</li> <li>Postcolonial Perspectives on Nuclear Non-Proliferation, Alex Chung: http://web.isanet.org/Web/Conferences/ISSS%20Austin%202014/Archive/253053b8-52cd-4251-8a5d-1dd0163cb460.pdf</li> <li>Documentary Bikini Islands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjqoiT-RS4A</li> <li>5th July 1946: The bikini swimsuit int