TY - JOUR
T1 - Camp follower or counterinsurgent? Lady Templer and the forgotten wives
AU - West, Hannah
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) [159400979]. I would like to thank Dr Oliver Walton, Dr Sarah Bulmer, Dr Alice Cree and the anonymous reviewers for their really helpful comments on earlier versions of this article. I would also like to thank the Templer family and the Brunner family for kindly sharing their private archives.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021/12/31
Y1 - 2021/12/31
N2 - British counterinsurgency thinking today remains strongly influenced by the Malaya Emergency (1948–1960) but little-known is the extensive women’s outreach program, pioneered by Lady Templer, involving the Women’s Institute and British Red Cross. Through discourse analysis of archival records, this article identifies four discourses characterizing British women’s participation, used, at the time, to make acceptable their presence whilst distancing them from the counterinsurgency campaign. By exploring how women’s presence has been negotiated and marginalized, I will reveal the blurred boundaries of counterinsurgency, questioning how the role of the counterinsurgent is constructed and sustained over time and for what purpose.
AB - British counterinsurgency thinking today remains strongly influenced by the Malaya Emergency (1948–1960) but little-known is the extensive women’s outreach program, pioneered by Lady Templer, involving the Women’s Institute and British Red Cross. Through discourse analysis of archival records, this article identifies four discourses characterizing British women’s participation, used, at the time, to make acceptable their presence whilst distancing them from the counterinsurgency campaign. By exploring how women’s presence has been negotiated and marginalized, I will reveal the blurred boundaries of counterinsurgency, questioning how the role of the counterinsurgent is constructed and sustained over time and for what purpose.
KW - Malaya
KW - counterinsurgency
KW - critical military studies
KW - women
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85099558325&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/09592318.2020.1860373
DO - 10.1080/09592318.2020.1860373
M3 - Article
SN - 0959-2318
VL - 32
SP - 1138
EP - 1162
JO - Small Wars and Insurgencies
JF - Small Wars and Insurgencies
IS - 7
ER -