Feminist approaches to everyday militarisms.
My political and scholarly interest in critical militarisms emerges from my anti-war and anti-imperialist feminist political organizing experience as well as my scholarly interest in the way that practices and structures of war permeate everyday life. I seek to de-exceptionalize war as moments of spectacular violence and am interested in how imperial violence continues to impact landscapes, ecologies, and people even when "wartime" is not occurring.
Part of a native Hawai'ian plant garden on the grounds of Fort Derussy, Armed Forces Recreation Center of the Pacific, Honolulu, HI (taken at American Studies Association 2019
On the Hawai'i Detours Project tour of military sites of Honolulu, November 2019
Gweagel Resistance Gathering at Captain Cook's landing site, Botany Bay, Australia, April 2019
Campground at Warameah (Cockatoo Island) in Sydney Harbor, a former prison and shipbuilding yard, visited as part of the Everyday Militarisms 'Walkshop', April 2019
I am a member of CRTMIL (Critical Militarization, Policing, and Security Studies Working Group) at UC Davis. From this emerged collaborations with University of Sydney resulting in two workshops on "Everyday Militarisms." I attended both in September 2018 (UC Davis) and April 2019 (University of Sydney).
Related publications
Our Militarized Campus Arboretum Walking Tour was born from the first Everyday Militarisms workshop at UC Davis in September 2018.
2023. “Review essay: Wartime’s ‘undeniable linkages’: Feminist studies of everyday militarisms across time and space.” Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, and Technoscience 9 (1): 1-14.
This review essay is part of the special section “The Domestication of War" edited by Everyday Militarisms members Diana Pardo Pedraza, Xan Chacko, Jennifer Terry, and Astrida Neimanis.
Kaplan, Caren, Gabi Kirk, and Tess Lea. 2020. “Editors’ Letter: Everyday Militarisms: Hidden in Plain Sight/Site.” Society and Space.
I co-edited this Forum containing five essays with Caren Kaplan and Tess Lea.
2019. “Transpacific Entanglements of Science & War: Reflection on Everyday Militarisms Collaboratory.” Backchannels: Society for Social Studies of Science, May 19.
2015. “What’s feminist about women and queer folks in the Israeli army?” Feministing, August 11.
Gale, Leanne, and Gabi Kirk. 2015. “Why the Occupation is a Reproductive Justice Issue,” Feministing, July 29.
Our Militarized Campus Arboretum Walking Tour was born from the first Everyday Militarisms workshop at UC Davis in September 2018.
2023. “Review essay: Wartime’s ‘undeniable linkages’: Feminist studies of everyday militarisms across time and space.” Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, and Technoscience 9 (1): 1-14.
This review essay is part of the special section “The Domestication of War" edited by Everyday Militarisms members Diana Pardo Pedraza, Xan Chacko, Jennifer Terry, and Astrida Neimanis.
Kaplan, Caren, Gabi Kirk, and Tess Lea. 2020. “Editors’ Letter: Everyday Militarisms: Hidden in Plain Sight/Site.” Society and Space.
I co-edited this Forum containing five essays with Caren Kaplan and Tess Lea.
2019. “Transpacific Entanglements of Science & War: Reflection on Everyday Militarisms Collaboratory.” Backchannels: Society for Social Studies of Science, May 19.
2015. “What’s feminist about women and queer folks in the Israeli army?” Feministing, August 11.
Gale, Leanne, and Gabi Kirk. 2015. “Why the Occupation is a Reproductive Justice Issue,” Feministing, July 29.