Description
Cynthia Enloe’s Bananas, Bases and Beaches has revealed the interactions between the gendered every day and wider national and international politics of militarization. Drawing on this work, my research attempts to explore the everyday in a nuclear think tank in India with the objective to explore the gendered (and postcolonial) logics that sustain knowledge production in the think tank. Think tanks are interesting case studies as they are not ostentatiously military in nature but serve as a middle ground to legitimize or delegitimize government military policy. This paper will focus on the methodology of the research- ethnography. Through a desk review of feminist and ethnography literature along with methodological issues and dilemmas from my polit study in field, I will unpack the challenges, dilemmas and benefits of conducting a feminist centered ethnography. The paper hopes to contribute to feminist methodological insights into the functioning of institutions that sustain and legitimize nuclearization.
