Sites of Violence : Gender and Conflict Zones

In conflict zones from Iraq and Afghanistan to Guatemala and Somalia, the rules of war are changing dramatically. Distinctions between battlefield and home, soldier and civilian, state security and domestic security are breaking down. In this especially timely book, a powerful group of international authors doing feminist research brings the highly gendered and racialized dimensions of these changes into sharp relief. In essays on nationalism, the political economy of conflict, and the politics of asylum, they investigate what happens when the body, household, nation, state, and economy become sites at which violence is invoked against people. In particular, these hard-hitting essays move us forward in our understanding of violence against women-how it is perpetrated, survived, and resisted. They explore the gendered politics of ethno-nationalism in Sri Lanka, the post-Yugoslav states, and Israel and Palestine. They consider "honor killings" in Iraqi Kurdistan, armed conflict in the Sudan, and geographies of violence in Ghana. This volume augments feminist analysis on conflict zones and contributes to transnational coalition-building and feminist organizing. Illustrations: 1 line illustration, 12 maps, 1 table illustrations......Page 8 acknowledgments......Page 10 part one: Feminist Approaches to Gender and Conflict......Page 12 1 Introduction: Gender and Conflict in a Global Context......Page 14 2 The Continuum of Violence: A Gender Perspective on War and Peace......Page 35 3 The Sounds of Silence: Feminist Research across Time in Guatemala......Page 56 part two: Violence against Women in War and Postwar Times......Page 84 6 From Pillars of Yugoslavism to Targets of Violence: Interethnic Marriages in the Former Yugoslavia and Thereafter......Page 145 7 Geographies of Violence: Women and Conflict in Ghana......Page 163 8 Gender, the Nationalist Imagination, War, and Peace......Page 181 5 No “Safe Haven”: Violence against Women in Iraqi Kurdistan......Page 119 4 Like Oil and Water, with a Match Militarized Commerce, Armed Conflict, and Human Security in Sudan......Page 86 part three: Feminist Analyses of International Organizations and Asylum......Page 202 13 The Gendered Impact of Multilateralism in the Post-Yugoslav States: Intervention, Reconstruction, and Globalization......Page 284 9 Refugee Camps as Conflict Zones: The Politics of Gender......Page 204 10 The “Purity” of Displacement and the Reterritorialization of Longing: Muslim IDPs in Northwestern Sri Lanka......Page 224 11 Escaping Conflict: Afghan Women in Transit......Page 243 12 War, Flight, and Exile: Gendered Violence among Refugee Women from Post-Yugoslav States......Page 260 part four: Feminist Futures: Negotiating Globalization, Security, and Human Displacement......Page 310 14 New Directions for Feminist Research and Politics......Page 312 references......Page 328 contributors......Page 358 index......Page 364 Gender and conflict in a global context / Wenona Giles and Jennifer Hyndman The continuum of violence: a gender perspective on war and peace / Cynthia Cockburn The sounds of silence: feminist research across time in Guatemala / Cathy Blacklock and Alison Crosby Like oil and water, with a match: militarized commerce, armed conflict, and human security in Sudan / Audrey Macklin No "safe haven": violence against women in Iraqi Kurdistan / Shahrzad Mojab From pillars of Yugoslavism to targets of violence: Interethnic marriages in the former Yugoslavia and thereafter / Mirjana Morokvasic-Müller Geographies of violence: women and conflict in Ghana / Valerie Pretson and Madeleine Wong Gender, the nationalist imagination, war, and peace / Nira Yuval-Davis Refugee camps as conflict zones: the politics of gender / Jennifer Hyndman The "purity" of displacement and the reterritorialization of longing: Muslim IDPs in the northwestern Sri Lanka / Malathi de Alvis Escaping conflict: Afghan women in transit / Asha Hans War, flight, and exile: gendered violence among refugee women from post-Yugoslav states / Maja Korac The gendered impact of multilateralism in the post-Yugoslav states: intervention, reconstruction, and globalization / Edith Klein New directions for feminist research and politics / Wenona Giles and Jennifer Hyndman.

In conflict zones from Iraq and Afghanistan to Guatemala and Somalia, the rules of war are changing dramatically. Distinctions between battlefield and home, soldier and civilian, state security and domestic security are breaking down.
In this especially timely book, a powerful group of international authors doing feminist research brings the highly gendered and racialized dimensions of these changes into sharp relief.
In essays on nationalism, the political economy of conflict, and the politics of asylum, they investigate what happens when the body, household, nation, state, and economy become sites at which violence is invoked against people.

In particular, these hard-hitting essays move us forward in our understanding of violence against women—how it is perpetrated, survived, and resisted. They explore the gendered politics of ethno-nationalism in Sri Lanka, the post-Yugoslav states, and Israel and Palestine. They consider "honor killings" in Iraqi Kurdistan, armed conflict in the Sudan, and geographies of violence in Ghana. This volume augments feminist analysis on conflict zones and contributes to transnational coalition-building and feminist organizing.

Extrait de amazon.com : "In conflict zones from Iraq and Afghanistan to Guatemala and Somalia, the rules of war are changing dramatically. Distinctions between battlefield and home, soldier and civilian, state security and domestic security are breaking down. In this especially timely book, a powerful group of international authors doing feminist research brings the highly gendered and racialized dimensions of these changes into sharp relief. In essays on nationalism, the political economy of conflict, and the politics of asylum, they investigate what happens when the body, household, nation, state, and economy become sites at which violence is invoked against people. In particular, these hard-hitting essays move us forward in our understanding of violence against women--how it is perpetrated, survived, and resisted. They explore the gendered politics of ethno-nationalism in Sri Lanka, the post-Yugoslav states, and Israel and Palestine. They consider "honor killings" in Iraqi Kurdistan, armed conflict in the Sudan, and geographies of violence in Ghana. This volume augments feminist analysis on conflict zones and contributes to transnational coalition-building and feminist organizing." Augmenting feminist analysis on conflict zones, this volume explores the gendered politics of ethno-nationalism 'honour-killings' in Iraq & Kurdistan, the civil war in Sudan & geographies of violence in Ghana, to investigate what happens when violence is invoked against people The events and aftermath of September 11 ineluctably dissolved the already precarious distinction between domestic sovereign space and more global space where transnational networks, international relations, multilateral institutions, and global corporations operate. Annotation In this book, militarization, nationalism, and globalization are scrutinized at sites of violent conflict from a range of feminist pespectives Edited By Wenona Giles And Jennifer Hyndman. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 317-345) And Index.