Gender Expressions, Morality and the Use of Physical Force by the Argentine Police

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Calandrón, Julieta Sabrina
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2017
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This paper analyzes the phenomenon of the use of police force and gender moralities in training and professional practices of police women. The central question is how physical and lethal force produces contradictions between making progress careers and agreeing with expressions of femininity that inhibit, a priori, such skills. This paper is the result of an ethnographic fieldworkdisplayed over five years in different police Argentinian institutions.The fieldwork includes interviews and participant observation in training facilities and workplaces (police stations, patrols and special operations) of Argentina's Federal Police, Argentine National Gendarmerie, Buenos Aires Provincial Police and Argentine Naval Prefecture. Ethnographic descriptions discuss the idea of homogeneity of police culture and contribute to think about flexibility, permeability and diversity in the police profession. This article presents arguments and empirical data which lead to conceive police as a space of tensions regarding the conceptions of gender. On the one hand, police officers (males and females) reaffirm some hegemonic ideas of gender; on the other hand, in their speeches they break the traditional notion that femininity systematically implies weakness. In this sense, the display of physical force is incorporated by women in the course of their police careers and exercised in contexts of police actions, but reinterpreted when justifying their actions against judicial agents.
Fil: Calandrón, Julieta Sabrina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación. Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales; Argentina
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Gender
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title Gender Expressions, Morality and the Use of Physical Force by the Argentine Police
spellingShingle Gender Expressions, Morality and the Use of Physical Force by the Argentine Police
Calandrón, Julieta Sabrina
Moral Standards
Police
Ethnography
Physical Force
Gender
title_short Gender Expressions, Morality and the Use of Physical Force by the Argentine Police
title_full Gender Expressions, Morality and the Use of Physical Force by the Argentine Police
title_fullStr Gender Expressions, Morality and the Use of Physical Force by the Argentine Police
title_full_unstemmed Gender Expressions, Morality and the Use of Physical Force by the Argentine Police
title_sort Gender Expressions, Morality and the Use of Physical Force by the Argentine Police
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Calandrón, Julieta Sabrina
author Calandrón, Julieta Sabrina
author_facet Calandrón, Julieta Sabrina
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Moral Standards
Police
Ethnography
Physical Force
Gender
topic Moral Standards
Police
Ethnography
Physical Force
Gender
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dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv This paper analyzes the phenomenon of the use of police force and gender moralities in training and professional practices of police women. The central question is how physical and lethal force produces contradictions between making progress careers and agreeing with expressions of femininity that inhibit, a priori, such skills. This paper is the result of an ethnographic fieldworkdisplayed over five years in different police Argentinian institutions.The fieldwork includes interviews and participant observation in training facilities and workplaces (police stations, patrols and special operations) of Argentina's Federal Police, Argentine National Gendarmerie, Buenos Aires Provincial Police and Argentine Naval Prefecture. Ethnographic descriptions discuss the idea of homogeneity of police culture and contribute to think about flexibility, permeability and diversity in the police profession. This article presents arguments and empirical data which lead to conceive police as a space of tensions regarding the conceptions of gender. On the one hand, police officers (males and females) reaffirm some hegemonic ideas of gender; on the other hand, in their speeches they break the traditional notion that femininity systematically implies weakness. In this sense, the display of physical force is incorporated by women in the course of their police careers and exercised in contexts of police actions, but reinterpreted when justifying their actions against judicial agents.
Fil: Calandrón, Julieta Sabrina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación. Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales; Argentina
description This paper analyzes the phenomenon of the use of police force and gender moralities in training and professional practices of police women. The central question is how physical and lethal force produces contradictions between making progress careers and agreeing with expressions of femininity that inhibit, a priori, such skills. This paper is the result of an ethnographic fieldworkdisplayed over five years in different police Argentinian institutions.The fieldwork includes interviews and participant observation in training facilities and workplaces (police stations, patrols and special operations) of Argentina's Federal Police, Argentine National Gendarmerie, Buenos Aires Provincial Police and Argentine Naval Prefecture. Ethnographic descriptions discuss the idea of homogeneity of police culture and contribute to think about flexibility, permeability and diversity in the police profession. This article presents arguments and empirical data which lead to conceive police as a space of tensions regarding the conceptions of gender. On the one hand, police officers (males and females) reaffirm some hegemonic ideas of gender; on the other hand, in their speeches they break the traditional notion that femininity systematically implies weakness. In this sense, the display of physical force is incorporated by women in the course of their police careers and exercised in contexts of police actions, but reinterpreted when justifying their actions against judicial agents.
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978 90 466 0829 6
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