Dr. Terrell Carver “Masculinities, Gender and International Relations”

The Sociology Research Forum hosted Dr. Terrell Carver (University of Bristol) for his talk, “Masculinities, Gender and International Relations,“ on Tuesday, September 20, 2022. Abstract: This talk is based on my forthcoming book which addresses great-power politics through the gender ‘lens’ of both masculinity and femininity. It adapts current theorisations within a novel conceptual framework that presents gender as an asymmetrical binary. Moreover gender is theorised as an ordered and ordering hierarchy. In that way the foundational concepts of International Relations are gendered as ‘nested’ hierarchies of domination and subordination. This empirical formation is understood intersectionally as hierarchies of race, class, gender, (dis)ability and similar categories of superiority and inferiority. These processes and institutions operate within complex hierarchies maintained by complicity and consent. Weapons industries, the arms trade, and nation-state militaries have a common legitimacy de