V. Linke (Vera)

In this PhD project, I research gender knowledge production in NATO. Focusing on NATO's implementation of the Women, Peace and Security agenda, I aim to gain a deeper understanding of how NATO makes gender known and thereby governable. The results of this project provide insights into the parameters for ‘common sense’ thinking about gender within NATO and demonstrate how various, sometimes conflicting ideas and assumptions around gender become developed and contested.

This project contributes to the feminist International Relations literature, but also to feminist organizational theory on gender equality transformation and the debate around whether military organizations can be credible actors of such transformation.