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Securitisation, development and the invisibility of gender
Discussions of violence are ubiquitous in, and with regard to, Papua
New Guinea. In this chapter, I discuss how persistent broader contexts
of legitimised violence shape efforts to destabilise particular patterns
of violence, namely, male violence against women. Looking at the
perspectives of men working in the security industry in PNG, I argue
that the increased traction and centrality of discourses of securitisation in
the name of national development allows violence against men accused of
criminal or anti-social behaviour to persist. Critically, the silences around
the gendered dimensions of violence between men excused as ‘disciplinary’
produces double standards that are unhelpful to efforts to improve gender
equality. Here, I seek to illustrate that narratives of discipline and security
form a continuum in discussions of violence, highlighting the need for
politicised and holistic approaches to gender in violence interventions.
