Gendering Human Security in Afghanistan

In a Time of Western Intervention

Ben Walter (University of Queensland, Australia)

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English

Routledge
02 June 2017

Peace studies & conflict resolution; Gender studies: women; International relations; Armed conflict

Series: Routledge Studies in Human Security

This book employs the concept of human security to show what the term means from the perspective of women in Afghanistan.

It engages with a well-established debate in academic and policy-making contexts regarding the utility of human security as a framework for understanding and redressing conflict. The book argues that this concept allows the possibility of articulating the substantive experiences of violence and marginalisation experienced by people in local settings as well as their own struggles towards a secure and happy life. In this regard, it goes a long way to making sense of the complex dynamics of conflict which have confounded Western policy-makers in their ongoing state-building mission in Afghanistan. However, despite this inherent potential, the idea of human security still needs refinement. Crucially, it has benefitted from critical feminist and critical social theories which provide the conceptual and methodological depth necessary to apprehend what a progressive ethical program of security looks like and how it can be furthered. Using this framework, the work provides a critical reconstruction of the effect of the US-led Western Intervention on women’s experiences of (in)security in the three provincial contexts of Nangarhar, Bamiyan and Kabul. This reconstruction is drawn from a wealth of historical and contemporary sociological research alongside original fieldwork undertaken in Delhi, India, during 2011 with women and men from the country’s different communities.

This book will be of much interest to students of human security, state-building, gender politics, war and conflict studies and IR in general.

By: Ben Walter (University of Queensland Australia)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 430g
ISBN: 9781138640641
ISBN 10: 1138640646
Series: Routledge Studies in Human Security
Pages: 190
Publication Date: 02 June 2017
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction 2. Gendering Human Security 3. The ‘traditional’ social context of gender dynamics 4. Modernization, fragmentation and the rise of hyper-masculinity 5. Nangarhar Province 6. Bamiyan Province 7. Kabul Province 8. Conclusion

Ben Walter is Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland, Australia.