ÖZP 2008/2

Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft
2008/2
111 S.




Das Schöne an Zeitschriftenabos ist ja, daß man(n) Hefte mit Schwerpunktthemen bekommt, mit deren Themenstellungen man(n) sich sonst eher nicht beschäftigt hätte. So das (mittlerweile auch schon gut abgelegene) Heft No.2 der ÖZP 2008, Feministische Perspektiven zu Anti/Terror/Kriegen. Es gibt Interessantes zu Soldatinnen in den USA, Selbstmordattentäterinnen, Frauen im failed state Somalia, Kritik an feministischen Rechtfertigungsmustern für die US-Kriegsführung.

Am meisten im Kopf herumgespukt hat Simona Sharonis Artikel über militarisierte Männlichkeit:
"All too often, the de-humanization of the 'other' has been not only central to militarization but also a legitimate practice that is rewarded by one's national collectivity. [...] Given the context of militarized patriotism that has been a centerpiece of U.S. culture since 9/11, soldiers who resist militarization have to take some great personal risks as they begin to de-militarize their identities. [...] To de-militarize masculinities and to de-legitimize the military system that they uphold and the militarized foreign policy they serve, we must distinguish between the military as a system, militarization as a process, and soldiers as human beings. A powerful and effective way of doing that is by reaching out to soldiers and listening to their stories. Because war cannot be fought without militarized masculinities, soldiers' war stories, which help de-mystify war, also work in turn to weaken, if not undo, the tightly constructed knot between masculinities and violence."
Sie zitiert dazu eine Aussage des US-Soldaten Camilo Mejia, der nach achtmonatigem Einsatz im Irak nicht zum zweiten Mal dorthin geschickt werden wollte, woraufhin er für neun Monate ins Gefängnis gesteckt wurde: "To those who have called me a coward I say that they are wrong, and that without knowing it, they are also right. They are wrong when they think that I left the war for fear of being killed. I admit that fear was there, but there was also the fear of killing innocent people, the fear of putting myself in a position where to survive means to kill, there was the fear of losing my soul in the process of saving my body, the fear of losing myself to my daughter, to the people who love me, to the man I used to be, the man I wanted to be. I was afraid of waking up one morning to realize my humanity had abandoned me."