ABSTRACT
: This chapter focuses on how Nordic identity and female gender comes into being in the myriad inter-/intra-actions in international crisis management in the context of global mobility. The politics of gender-mainstreaming is first and foremost implemented by increasing the share of women among the seconded civilian security experts or deployed military peace-keepers. This sets the Nordic countries apart from example southern European countries, which do not pursue actively the politics of gender-mainstreaming. The non-fragmented approach to gender and subjectivity moves beyond the atomistic world-view about gendered subjectivity, agency, identity and sexuality as properties belonging to a person and assumed to be fixed and stable. Sweden also actively seeks to achieve a profile of expertise in gender. Nordic identity and female gender can therefore be seen as a form of gendered and ethnicized subjectivity, which emerges in the context of post-9/11 globalization and especially in the context of militarized humanitarianism.
