@article{SantosdeCarvalho:319354,
      recid = {319354},
      author = {Santos de Carvalho, Juliana},
      title = {Under the shadow of legality a shadow hauntology on the  legal construction of the Women, Peace and Security agenda},
      address = {2024},
      number = {ARTICLE},
      abstract = {Considered a landmark in feminist international politics,  the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda of the UN  Security Council has been the object of many feminist  explorations. Feminist legal scholars, however, have  grappled with the ‘shadowy’ legality of the agenda, mostly  analysing it as an ‘unsuccessful’ legal project: a partial  or in progress legal norm, a defective legal form that  attests (and furthers) the exile of inclusion of feminists  in international law, or yet a formalistic discussion with  lesser impact for feminist activists on the ground. Drawing  from Avery Gordon’s considerations on taking shadows  seriously in our production of knowledge, I propose,  however, that reckoning with the shadows of the WPS’s  legality enables a more comprehensive analysis of how the  agenda has been a successful legal project in its own way.  Offering a ‘shadow hauntology’ for the legal status of the  WPS, I zoom in on the competing legality perceptions shared  by relevant actors, the (gendered and  colonially-continuous) shadows that have haunted those  perceptions into formation, and how these competing visions  have shaped the legality of the WPS as a shadow of its own.  This study then offers an alternative way of studying  legality both to feminist legal scholarship and studies on  international legal sources more broadly. More concretely,  it embraces the irresolvability of the legal status of a  norm to take stock of the different legal projects and  legality perceptions advanced by feminist actors and gender  experts, in an effort to understand, in their own terms,  the successes achieved.},
      url = {http://repository.graduateinstitute.ch/record/319354},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1017/S0922156523000432},
}