BISA 2026 Conference

The Role of Sex and Gender in Security: Borders, Threats and Protection

TH04

4 Jun 2026, 16:45

1h 30m

The Dome, Maldron Hotel

Gendering International Relations Working Group

Description

The Role of Sex and Gender in Security: Borders, Threats and Protection

Subcontributions

• Securitizing immigrant men through security assistance: the construction of threatening masculinities in the every day of European security assistance in North Africa
• Understanding trans* anti-border practices as an epistemology of resistance
• Gendered peace under repression: West Papuan women’s activism and the politics of survival
• The Security Closet: The Queer Work of Keeping Protection Straight
• A Gendered Dimension to Borderland Women: Intersecting Marginalities of Conflict, Culture and Patriarchy at the Indo-Nepalese Open Border.