This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the field of gender, feminism and peace.
It is based on the argument that feminist thinking is necessary to understand and analyse the core issues in peace and conflict studies and is fundamental to thinking about solutions to global problems and to promoting peaceful conflict transformation. The book centres alternative and critical approaches missing in mainstream peace research and brings forward feminist perspectives on traditional peace research topics such as militarism, peacekeeping, arms trade and the articulation of different forms of violence. It also advances critical and alternative issues and topics that traditional peace research has sidelined, including, for example, artificial intelligence, technologies and peace; trauma and memory; human–non-human species relations; art; popular culture; post-colonial and decolonial feminist perspectives; and the queering of war and peace. In sum, this textbook contributes to the visibility of these feminist critical approaches to peace research and makes them accessible to scholars and students interested in the subject.
This book will be of much interest to students of peace studies, feminist theory, gender studies and International Relations.
By:
Élise Féron (Tampere University Finland),
Tarja Väyrynen (Tampere University,
Finland)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 246mm,
Width: 174mm,
Weight: 880g
ISBN: 9781032201511
ISBN 10: 1032201517
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 09 April 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
1. Feminist Peace Research: An Introduction SECTION 1 – BODIES IN WAR AND PEACE 2. Conflicts and Wars as Corporeal Experiences 3. Female Combatants 4. Wartime Sexual Violence 5. The Gendered Dimensions of Forced Displacement 6. Post-Conflict Reconciliation and Memory Work 7. Embodied War Trauma and Postmemory SECTION 2 – WAR AND PEACE: AN INTERSECTIONAL APPROACH 8. Matrices of Domination, Intersectionality and Violent Conflicts 9. Gendered Images and Roles During Violent Conflicts 10. Masculinities, Nationalism and Militarism 11. Feminist Approaches to Genocide 12. Feminist Analyses of War Economies 13. Youth, Conflict and Peace SECTION 3 – SUBALTERNITY, ABJECTION AND SILENCING IN WAR AND PEACE 14. Decolonialising Peacebuilding 15. Post-Conflict Silencing 16. Artificial Intelligence and Military Technologies 17. Alternative Ontologies and Conflict Transformation 18. Non-Human Animals in Military Institutions SECTION 4 – ENABLING AND DISABLING ENVIRONMENTS 19. Continuums of Violence 20. Post-War Violence and Impunity 21. Disasters, Famines and Epidemics 22. Climate Crisis and Justice 23. Environmental Peacebuilding SECTION 5 – POWER, RESISTANCE AND ACTIVISM 24. Power and Resistance in Peacebuilding 25. Feminist and Women’s Peace Activism 26. Everyday Peace 27. Peacebuilding and Reconciliation Through the Arts 28. Epilogue: Feminist Imaginings of Peace
Élise Féron is Docent and Senior Research Fellow, Tampere Peace Research Institute, Tampere University, Finland. Tarja Väyrynen is Professor at Tampere Peace Research Institute, Tampere University, Finland.
Reviews for Feminist Peace Research: An Introduction
'This textbook is one of the top eye-opening books every scholar and practitioner involved in conflict resolution should read. In these terrible times, it is unique in at least three regards. First, it puts into question most preconceived ideas on war and peace. Second, it dissects embodied interactions and gendered dynamics during and after mass atrocities. Third, it boosts determination to favour collaboration and mutual support leading to everyday peace. An outstanding exercise of reflexivity.' Valérie Rosoux, Director of Research at the National Fund for Scientific Research, Professor in the School of Political and Social Sciences, University of Louvain, Belgium
