グローバルな核の政治学へのフェミニストの問いかけ : International Affairs 誌98巻4号特集

This paper reviews nine articles of a special section in the July 2022 issue of International Affairs, “Feminist interrogations of global nuclear politics,” guest-edited by Catherine Eschle and Shin Choi. This special section aims to highlight how the global nuclear order has been formulated by coloniality in gendered and racialized way. They argue that feminist International Relations analysis on nuclear politics should be revitalized to take comprehensive account o f the colonial matrix of power, its racialized underpinnings, and its contemporary realignments. The reviewed articles discuss issues i.e., indigenous women’s resistance against the nuclear fuel chain in North America; variously gendered images of the atomic bomb in Egypt and its implications; a possible feminist-Gandhian ethic as an alternative to unbridled nuclearization in India; the masculinity of the political readers in the Cuban Missile Crisis; Sweden’s masculine strategies of nuclear renunciation; Analysis of actual contents of gender-sensitive policies within the Non-Proliferation Treaty framework; and poetry as a political mean of Pacific women’s anti-nuclear activism. The reviewer finds this special section provide us clearer pictures of e.g. politically empowered women as anti-nuclear activists through traditional and non-political means like poetry; political leaders’ quest for masculine status; varied possibilities of gender-sensitive approach. The reviewer as an international lawyer argues that for feminist international lawyers to analyze nuclear regulation framework, it is of critical importance to understand the actual experience of the unrepresented people and consider the system to have their voice represented.