Gendering Peace in Violent Peripheries: Marginality, Masculinity, and Feminist Agency

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Uddipana Goswami

Gendering Peace in Violent Peripheries

Marginality, Masculinity, and Feminist Agency

Uddipana Goswami

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Routledge
27 May 2024

Peace studies & conflict resolution; International relations; Human rights; Civil rights & citizenship; Warfare & defence

Series: Routledge Advances in Feminist Peace Research

This book forwards Assam (and Northeast India) as a specific location for studying operations of gendered power in multi-ethnic, conflict-habituated geopolitical peripheries globally.

In the shifting and relational margins of such peripheral societies, power and agency are constantly negotiated and in flux. Notions of masculinity are redefined in an interlaced environment of militarization, hyper-masculinization, and gendered violence. These interconnections inform victimhood and agency among the most vulnerable marginalized constituencies – namely, women and migrants. By centering the marginalized in its inquiry, the book analyzes obstacles to achieving positive, organic peace based on cooperation and mutual healing. The tools used to perpetuate an endless cycle of violence that makes conflict a habit – a way of life – are identified in order to enable resistance against them from within the margins. Such resistance must be based on reflexivity and strategic, cautious radicalism. This involves critically interrogating the inherent connections between engendered pasts and feminist futures, local changes and global contexts, as well as between small, incremental changes and big shifts impacting entire societies, nations, and global orders.

This book will be of much interest to students of ethnic conflict, conflict resolution, feminist peace, and Asian/South Asian politics.

By: Uddipana Goswami
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 330g
ISBN: 9781032211107
ISBN 10: 1032211105
Series: Routledge Advances in Feminist Peace Research
Pages: 166
Publication Date: 27 May 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Uddipana Goswami is a writer, feminist peace researcher, and author of Conflict and Reconciliation: The Politics of Ethnicity in Assam (Routledge, 2014).