1.  Markets, Men, and Mercenaries Private Security through the Lens of Gender, Race, and Global Political Economy Dr. Amanda Chisholm (Newcastle University) Dr. Saskia Stachowitsch (University of Vienna)

2. Private Security in Popular Culture

3. A Global Business

4. Popular Imaginings of Security Contractors White Western Male Heterosexual Hi-Tech Weaponry Violent Professional

5. Media Scandals: Contractor Violence and Gender-based Exploitation

6. Self-Representations of the Industry

7. Private Security is also about…  Unarmed security at shopping centers and special events  Personal Protection  Airport Security  Insurance and Risk  Consultancy and Training  Policy Advisory

8. The Austrian Case

9. Academic Inquiries  Historical perspectives  Regulation, accountability  Implications for democracy and policy  State erosion (or not?)  Critical approaches (Anna Leander)

10. Gender and Private Security Masculinity Studies Feminist International Relations Feminist Security Studies Feminist State Theories Postcolonial Theory Critical Military Studies

11. Political Economies of Private Security  Security as Labour:  Feminist Global Political Economy (GPE)  Global military labour chains/labour migration  Gendered and racialised divisions of labour  The invisible labour  The everyday as constitutive of global security markets

12. Martial Race and Private Security Rooted in colonial encounters Biology as race Construction of the ideal military colonial solider Altered local political economies Continue to be preferred global South security contractors

13. Gurkhas in Private Security 200 years military service with the British Constructed through colonial martial race logic Racial heritage mediates the kinds of work they do

14. Gurkha Wives Integral to the military/security labour chains Militarised families

15. Militarising Women’s Labour The supportive wivesThe grieving wives

16. Conclusions PMSCs are profoundly shaping security governance PMSCs are reconstructing global labour relations The security market reproduces gendered and racialised inequalities These security practices are constituted through the everyday

17. Routledge Handbook of Private Security Studies (ed. R. Abrahamsen, A. Leander) Gender and Private Security in Global Politics (ed. M. Eichler) newcastle.academia.edu/ AmandaChisholm homepage.univie.ac.at/ saskia. stachowitsch Further Reading