The Political Economy of Conflict and Violence Against Women

Cases from the South
Herausgeber: Samuel, Kumudini; Gunasekara, Vagisha; Slatter, Claire

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Produktbeschreibung

A radical new collection addressing violence against women in conflict zones across the global South.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 139mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 296g
• ISBN-13: 9781786996107
• ISBN-10: 1786996103
• Artikelnr.: 55768084

Autorenporträt

Kumudini Samuel is an Executive Committee member of DAWN, engaged in its cross-cutting work and concentrating on the domain of political restructuring and social transformation. She lives and works in Sri Lanka and is a co-founder and currently Director, Programmes and Research at the Women and Media Collective. She has a Masters in Women's Studies from the University of Colombo and has written and worked on gender and politics, conflict and transitions, women's movements, and sexuality. Claire Slatter is a founding member and current Board Chair of DAWN. A Fijian national, she has an MA in Political Studies from the Australian National University and a PhD in Public Policy from Massey University and taught politics at the University of the South Pacific for 23 years. She has written, engaged in advocacy and done consulting work on issues of regional concern including neoliberal reforms, trade liberalisation, democracy and human rights, and gender and development. Vagisha Gunasekara is a Sri Lankan researcher, affiliated with the Social Scientists' Association (SSA), Sri Lanka. She received her PhD in Political Science from Purdue University, USA. She takes primarily a political economy approach in studying particular entanglements of gender and conflict in rapidly changing situations in the South Asia region.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Framing a South Feminist Analysis of War, Conflict and
Violence Against Women: the value of a political economy lens - Kumudini
Samuel and Vagisha Gunasekara 1: The construction of the 'responsible
woman': Structural Violence in Sri Lanka's Post-War Development Strategy -
Vagisha Gunasekara and Vijay K. Nagaraj 2: Ending Violence Against Women in
Papua New Guinea's Highlands Region: The role of the State, Local Civil
Society and Extractive Industries - Elizabeth Cox 3: Rural Women in
Colombia: From Victims to Actors - Cecilia López Montaño And María-Claudia
Holstine 4: Political Economy of Violence Against Women Case Studies:
Egypt, Iraq and Syria - Doaa Abdelaal 5: Contesting Territoriality:
patriarchy, accumulation and dis-possession. "Entrenched Peripherality":
Women, political economy and the myth of peacebuilding in North East India
- Roshmi Goswami 6: Re-imagining Subversion: Agency and women's peace
activism in Northern Uganda - Yaliwe Clarke and Constance O'Brien 7: The
Prism of Marginalisation: Political Economy of Violence Against Women in
Sudan and South Sudan - Fahima Hashim