Emerging Feminist Peace From Below and Disaster Recovery

A Quilted Ethnography

Marjaana Jauhola, Shyam Gadhavi

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Routledge
22 May 2025

Peace studies & conflict resolution; Social & political philosophy; Feminism & feminist theory; International relations; Warfare & defence

Series: Routledge Advances in Feminist Peace Research

This book offers a critical contribution to feminist peace and disaster research by challenging the successful disaster recovery narrative of the Kachchh 2001 earthquake in Gujarat, India.

Engaging in a feminist intersectional analysis of complex cascades of violence, the book uses a theoretical and methodological approach to studying cascades of violence of populist post-disaster recovery, communal violence, and urban development - each with implications for intersectional social divisions, ecology, and thus, everyday peace. The book follows the mundane everyday and life-historical trajectories of the residents of the temporary shelter neighbourhood in Bhuj, drawing attention to an emerging feminist peace from below through silent resistance, care, and solidarity. It demonstrates that the impacts of disaster populism in the name of being ‘pro-poor’ do not impact the marginalised segments of the society and disaster-affected communities, even within the same neighbourhood of the dispossessed, in the same ways. Combining underexplored newspaper and project documentation archives, the speeches of Narendra Modi delivered in Kachchh, and urban life historical ethnography, the book offers a rich analysis of gendered and intersectional experiences of how dispossession and mundane violence are embedded in the earthquake recovery – and how international humanitarian aid and urban disaster recovery is entangled with complex cascades of violence.

This book will be of much interest to students of feminist theory, peace studies, post-disaster recovery, and South Asian politics.

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.

By: Marjaana Jauhola, Shyam Gadhavi
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781032752082
ISBN 10: 1032752084
Series: Routledge Advances in Feminist Peace Research
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 22 May 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Marjaana Jauhola is a Senior Research Fellow at Tampere Peace Research Institute, Tampere University, Finland and Associate Professor in Global Development Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland. Shyam Gadhavi is a founder and president of the Prakrit Foundation for Development Trust, India, an NGO.

Reviews for Emerging Feminist Peace From Below and Disaster Recovery: A Quilted Ethnography

'This book is the product of outstanding research and scholarship and its ethnographic quilting is an innovative method in the co-creation of knowledge. Taking the everyday as a site of epistemic and methodological enquiry that weaves the local and the global together, the book is a valuable exposition of post-disaster recovery from a feminist peace studies perspective. Essential read on the violence of development, disaster recovery and populist politics especially in India.' Swati Parashar, Professor in Peace and Development, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg