Politics and Gender in the Executive Suite

The Pokémon franchise has been targeted and has been successful with males and females (Tobin, 2004). In it, cute-looking creatures with superpowers fight each other for the fame and glory of their masters (the players). The franchise includes a plethora of entertainment media. This essay will focus on the recent release, Pokémon GO. This particular game and its location-based technology will be analysed using cyberfeminism and actor-network theory to explore the play space as a context for kinaesthetic awareness and embodiment. The cyberfeminism herein exploited is that of “the utopian tradition of imagining a world without gender” (Haraway, 2000, p. 292). Actor-network theory, a strong methodological tradition in science and technology studies, sees actors and the networks they create as completely ‘flat’ and non-hierarchical. ANT has been criticised for its lack of concern with politics and gender (Lagesen, 2012) but, in combination with a feminist lens, ANT has the potential to uncover issues that other approaches in game studies cannot. This original framework can help game studies scholars to see gameplay processes in a new light by following the many actors involved in game design and use.

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Revisiting Gendered States

10.1093/oso/9780190644031.001.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

V. Spike Peterson

Keyword(s):

Identity Politics ◽

First Century ◽

Modern State ◽

Stable States ◽

New States ◽

Politics And Gender ◽

And Gender ◽

Political Economic ◽

Global And Local ◽

Violent Conflicts

State sovereignty and autonomy in the twenty-first century are both under challenge and continually reasserted in diverse ways through gender, sexuality, and race-making. This paradox makes it pertinent to revisit the idea of states as gendered political entities. Bringing together scholars from international relations and postcolonial and development studies, this volume collectively theorizes the modern state and its intricate relationship to security, identity politics, and gender. Drawing on postcolonial and critical feminist approaches, together with empirical case studies, contributors engage with the ontological foundations of the modern state and its capacity to adapt to the global and local contestations of its identity, histories, and purpose. They examine the various ways in which gender explains the construction and interplay of states in global politics today; and how states, be they neoliberal, postcolonial, or religious (or all three together), impact the everyday lives and security of their citizens. Such a rich array of feminist analyses of multiple kinds of states provides crucial insight into gender injustices in relatively stable states, but also into the political, economic, social, and cultural inequalities that produce violent conflicts threatening the sovereignty of some states and even leading to the creation of new states.

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Politics and Gender

A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Britain ◽

10.1002/9780470997147.ch11 ◽

2007 ◽

pp. 174-188

Author(s):

Sarah Richardson

Keyword(s):

Politics And Gender ◽

And Gender

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Race, politics and gender: Women’s struggles for sport in

Heroines of Sport ◽

10.4324/9780203466063-7 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 28-59

Keyword(s):

Race Politics ◽

Politics And Gender ◽

And Gender

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Stepping Forward, Standing Strong

Women's Journey to Empowerment in the 21st Century ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190927097.003.0015 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 251-265

Author(s):

Annalisa Enrile ◽

Dorotea Mendoza

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Civil Rights ◽

The Philippines ◽

Labor Politics ◽

History Of ◽

Women And Children ◽

Politics And Gender ◽

And Gender ◽

United Nations Declaration ◽

Extrajudicial Killings

The term human rights defenders was coined after the ratification of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights in 1998. The term encompasses those who identify and act as advocates, activists, professionals, and workers; those who monitor and take reports; and others who work in the human rights arena. The point of unity that all human rights defenders share is that they seek to promote and protect basic civil rights. They may do this in multiple capacities, including providing legal aid, mental health services, casework, and general protection such as providing shelter or security. The work of human rights defenders is difficult and dangerous. In 2017, more than 300 human rights defenders were killed. The Philippines has a history of violations in the spheres of labor, politics, and gender rights. In 2017, there were human rights violations in the form of more than 350,000 displaced persons, more than 4,000 extrajudicial killings, overpopulated prisons, and the trafficking of thousands of women and children. The most effective way to address these violations is through transnational organizing and movement building, cultivating international alliances of women who fight abuses against human rights defenders. These organizations and coalitions operate beyond borders and create change through engagement.

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