Gender and the Political Economy of Conflict in Africa: The Persistence of Violence

ISBN-13: 9780815394181 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 198 str.

US) Meredeth (Rutgers University Turshen

Opis

This book explores the persistence of violence in conflict zones in Africa using a political economy framework to situate violence against women and men in the context of criminal, corrupt, and violent economies. The political economy approach employs an analysis of violence on both edges of the spectrum—a macro-economic analysis of violence against workers and a micro-political analysis of the violence in women’s reproductive lives.

Recenzje

"This is not a ‘neat’ book, in that the analysis suggests loose ends that cannot be tied up. But this is reflective of the extreme messiness of violence and conflict that make up the lives of many women, and for this it is refreshing and ultimately more convincing, and more useful in understanding the persistence of violence in women’s lives." - Fenella Porter, Ruskin College, Oxford, UK

Spis treści

Part 1: The persistence of violence  1. Gender and the political economy of violence  2. The gendered history of persistent violence  Part 2. Violence in production and social reproduction  3. Gender and the use of force in production  4. Violence in biological and social reproduction  5. The construction of lives in armed conflict  Part 3. Social movements and social justice  6. Social movements and the struggle for social justice

O autorze

Meredeth Turshen is Professor at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA.