Gender, Globalization, and Violence: Postcolonial Conflict Zones

ISBN-13: 9780415817356 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 294 str.

Sandra Ponzanesi

Opis

This wide-ranging collection of essays elaborates on some of the most pressing issues in contemporary postcolonial society in their transition from conflict and contestation to dialogue and resolution. It explores from new angles questions of violent conflict, forced migration, trafficking and deportation, human rights, citizenship, transitional justice and cosmopolitanism.

Spis treści

Introduction: New Frames of Gendered Violence  Sandra Ponzanesi  Part I: Conflict Zones: Colonial Haunting and Contested Sovereignties  1. Neoliberal Discourses on Violence: Monstrosity and Rape in Borderland War  Jolle Demmers  2. Thin Ice: Postcoloniality and Sexuality in the Politics of Citizenship and Military Service  Vron Ware  3. American Humanitarian Citizenship: The "Soft" Power of Empire  Inderpal Grewal  4. Female Suicide Bombers and the Politics of Gendered Militancy  Sandra Ponzanesi  Part II: European Frictions: Memories, Migration and Citizenship  5. Uses and Abuses of Gender and Nationality: Torture and the French-Algerian War  Christine Quinan  6. Migrating Sovereignties and Mirror States: From Eritrea to L'Aquila  Marguerite Waller  7. Doing "Integration" in Europe: Postcolonial Frictions in the Making of Citizenship  Marc de Leeuw and Sonja van Wichelen  8. Coffin Exchange  Paulo de Medeiros  Part III: Contact Zones: Transitional Justice, Reconciliation and Cosmopolitanism  9. "Invisible Wars": Gendered Terrorism in the US Military and the Juárez Feminicidio.  Alicia Arrizón  10. Political Transitions and the Arts: The Performance of (Post-)Colonial Leadership in Philip Miller’s Cantata REwind and in Wim Botha’s Portrait Busts.  Rosemarie Buikema  11. Justice by Any Means Necessary: Vigilantism Among Indian Women  Aaronette White and Shagun Rastogi  12. On Love and Shame: Two Photographs of Female Protesters  Marta Zarzycka  13. Rethinking the "Arab Spring" Through the Postsecular: Gender Entanglements, Social Media and the Religion/Secular Divide  Eva Midden

O autorze

Sandra Ponzanesi is Head of Humanities at University College Utrecht and Associate Professor in Gender and Postcolonial Critique at the Department of Media and Culture Studies/Graduate Gender Programme, Utrecht University, the Netherlands.