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Sites of Violence Wenona Giles

Sites of Violence By Wenona Giles

Sites of Violence by Wenona Giles


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In conflict zones from Iraq and Afghanistan to Guatemala and Somalia, the rules of war are changing dramatically. This book brings the highly gendered and racialized dimensions of these changes into sharp relief. It explores the gendered politics of ethno-nationalism in Sri Lanka, the post-Yugoslav states, and Israel and Palestine.

Sites of Violence Summary

Sites of Violence: Gender and Conflict Zones by Wenona Giles

In conflict zones from Iraq and Afghanistan to Guatemala and Somalia, the rules of war are changing dramatically. Distinctions between battlefield and home, soldier and civilian, state security and domestic security are breaking down. In this especially timely book, a powerful group of international authors doing feminist research brings the highly gendered and racialized dimensions of these changes into sharp relief. In essays on nationalism, the political economy of conflict, and the politics of asylum, they investigate what happens when the body, household, nation, state, and economy become sites at which violence is invoked against people. In particular, these hard-hitting essays move us forward in our understanding of violence against women - how it is perpetrated, survived, and resisted. They explore the gendered politics of ethno-nationalism in Sri Lanka, the post-Yugoslav states, and Israel and Palestine. They consider honor killings in Iraqi Kurdistan, armed conflict in the Sudan, and geographies of violence in Ghana. This volume augments feminist analysis on conflict zones and contributes to transnational coalition-building and feminist organizing.

About Wenona Giles

Wenona Giles is Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences, Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies, York University, Toronto. She is co-editor of Feminists Under Fire: Exchanges Across War Zones (2003). Jennifer Hyndman is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, and the author of Managing Displacement: Refugees and the Politics of Humanitarianism (2000).

Table of Contents

Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments PART ONE: FEMINIST APPROACHES TO GENDER AND CONFLICT 1. Introduction: Gender and Conflict in a Global Context Wenona Giles and Jennifer Hyndman 2. The Continuum of Violence: A Gender Perspective on War and Peace Cynthia Cockburn 3. The Sounds of Silence: Feminist Research across Time in Guatemala Cathy Blacklock and Alison Crosby PART TWO: VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN WAR AND POSTWAR TIMES 4. Like Oil and Water, with a Match: Militarized Commerce, Armed Conflict, and Human Security in Sudan Audrey Macklin 5. No Safe Haven: Violence against Women in Iraqi Kurdistan Shahrzad Mojab 6. From Pillars of Yugoslavism to Targets of Violence: Interethnic Marriages in the Former Yugoslavia and Thereafter Mirjana Morokvasic-Muller 7. Geographies of Violence: Women and Conflict in Ghana Valerie Preston and Madeleine Wong 8. Gender, the Nationalist Imagination, War, and Peace Nira Yuval-Davis PART THREE: FEMINIST ANALYSES OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND ASYLUM 9. Refugee Camps as Conflict Zones: The Politics of Gender Jennifer Hyndman 10. The Purity of Displacement and the Reterritorialization of Longing: Muslim IDPs in Northwestern Sri Lanka Malathi de Alwis 11. Escaping Conflict: Afghan Women in Transit Asha Hans 12. War, Flight, and Exile:Gendered Violence among Refugee Women from Post-Yugoslav States Maja Korac 13. The Gender Relations of Multilateralism in the Post-Yugoslav States: Intervention, Reconstruction, and Globalization Edith Klein PART FOUR: FEMINIST FUTURES: NEGOTIATING GLOBALIZATION, SECURITY, AND HUMAN DISPLACEMENT 14. New Directions for Feminist Research and Politics Wenona Giles and Jennifer Hyndman References List of Contributors Index

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GOR006750215
9780520237919
0520237919
Sites of Violence: Gender and Conflict Zones by Wenona Giles
Used - Very Good
Paperback
University of California Press
20040628
373
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