Feminist Interventions in Critical Peace and Conflict Studies

ISBN-13: 9780367773342 / Miękka / 2023 / 120 str.

Opis

This book provides a feminist intervention in Peace & Conflict Studies. It demonstrates why feminist approaches matter to theories and practices of resolving conflict and building peace and highlights the value of feminist analysis to contemporary Peace and Conflict Studies.

Spis treści

Introduction: Critical peace and conflict studies: feminist interventions

Laura McLeod and Maria O’Reilly

1. Mundane peace and the politics of vulnerability: a nonsolid feminist research agenda

Tarja Väyrynen

2. From power-blind binaries to the intersectionality of peace: connecting feminism and critical peace and conflict studies

Stefanie Kappler and Nicolas Lemay-Hébert

3. The ‘third gender’ in Afghanistan: a feminist account of hybridity as a gendered experience

Hannah Partis-Jennings

4. Care as everyday peacebuilding

Tiina Vaittinen, Amanda Donahoe, Rahel Kunz, Silja Bára Ómarsdóttir and Sanam Roohi

5. From expert to experiential knowledge: exploring the inclusion of local experiences in understanding violence in conflict

Rachel Julian, Berit Bliesemann de Guevara and Robin Redhead

6. Veteran masculinities and audiovisual popular music in post-conflict Croatia: a feminist aesthetic approach to the contested everyday peace

Catherine Baker

O autorze

Laura McLeod is lecturer in International Politics at the University of Manchester, UK. Her research focuses on gender, feminism and security concerns in post-conflict contexts. Her current project investigates gender indicators and databases used within UN peacebuilding.

Maria O’Reilly is senior lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Leeds Beckett University, UK. Her research focuses on questions of gender and agency in peacebuilding contexts, and she is currently exploring experiences of female ex-combatants in Bosnia & Herzegovina.