Feminist Interventions in Critical Peace and Conflict Studies
This book provides a feminist intervention in Peace and Conflict Studies. It demonstrates why feminist approaches matter to theories and practices of resolving conflict and building peace.
Understanding power inequalities in contexts of armed conflict and peace processes is crucial for identifying the root causes of conflict and opportunities for peaceful transformation. Feminist scholarship offers vital theoretical insights and innovative methods, which can deepen our understanding of power relations in peacebuilding. Yet, all too often feminist research receives token acknowledgement rather than sustained engagement and analysis.
This collection highlights the value of feminist analysis to contemporary Peace and Conflict Studies. Drawing on case studies from around the world including Croatia, Myanmar, Iceland, Nepal, India, Afghanistan, and Timor-Leste it demonstrates why paying serious attention to feminist scholarship prompts useful insights for peacebuilding policy, practice, and scholarship.
Feminist theory, epistemology, and methodology provide a rich resource for critically analysing peacebuilding practices. In particular, the chapters highlight the value of feminist reflexivity, the contributions of a feminist corporeal analysis, and the significance of a feminist reading of core concepts in Peace and Conflict Studies including hybridity, the local, and the everyday.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Peacebuilding.
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 OReilly 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.
Feminist Interventions in Critical Peace and Conflict Studies
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Contents
Laura McLeod and Maria OReilly
Tarja Vyrynen
Stefanie Kappler and Nicolas Lemay-Hbert
Hannah Partis-Jennings
Tiina Vaittinen, Amanda Donahoe, Rahel Kunz, Silja Bra marsdttir and Sanam Roohi
Rachel Julian, Berit Bliesemann de Guevara and Robin Redhead
Catherine Baker
The chapters in this book were originally published in Peacebuilding, volume 7, issue 2 (June 2019). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Critical peace and conflict studies: feminist interventions
Laura McLeod and Maria OReilly
Peacebuilding, volume 7, issue 2 (June 2019), pp. 127145
Mundane peace and the politics of vulnerability: a nonsolid feminist research agenda
Tarja Vyrynen
Peacebuilding, volume 7, issue 2 (June 2019), pp. 146159
From power-blind binaries to the intersectionality of peace: connecting feminism and critical peace and conflict studies
Stefanie Kappler and Nicolas Lemay-Hbert
Peacebuilding, volume 7, issue 2 (June 2019), pp. 160177
The third gender in Afghanistan: a feminist account of hybridity as a gendered experience
Hannah Partis-Jennings
Peacebuilding, volume 7, issue 2 (June 2019), pp. 178193
Care as everyday peacebuilding
Tiina Vaittinen, Amanda Donahoe, Rahel Kunz, Silja Bra marsdttir and Sanam Roohi
Peacebuilding, volume 7, issue 2 (June 2019), pp. 194209
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
Peacebuilding, volume 7, issue 2 (June 2019), pp. 210225
Veteran masculinities and audiovisual popular music in post-conflict Croatia: a feminist aesthetic approach to the contested everyday peace
Catherine Baker
Peacebuilding, volume 7, issue 2 (June 2019), pp. 226242
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Catherine Baker, Department of History, University of Hull, Hull, UK.
Berit Bliesemann de Guevara, Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University, Penglais, Aberystwyth, UK.
Amanda Donahoe, Peace and Justice Studies, Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA; History and Political Science, Centenary College of Louisiana, Shreveport LA, USA.
Rachel Julian, School of Social Sciences, Leeds Beckett University, City Campus, Leeds, UK.
Stefanie Kappler, School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University, Durham, UK.
Rahel Kunz
