Violence against Women in and beyond Conflict explores the processes and structures that underlie sexual violence and internal displacement in armed conflict, utilizing extensive ethnographic research to provide cutting-edge insights.
Provides unique and cutting-edge insights into the relationship of political, (post)colonial and economic determinants of gendered and racialized violence.
Bridges feminist political economy with feminist security studies in IR scholarship.
Very timely, given the ongoing issues with Colombia's peace process.
Julia Carolin Sachseder is a Post-doctoral Fellow in the Departments of International Relations and Gender Studies at the Central European University, Austria. She is also an affiliated postdoctoral Researcher at the Austrian Institute of International Affairs (OIIP), and a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna, Austria. Her research interests involve primarily the political economy and (post)coloniality of violence and (in)security, gender, as well as non-state and corporate actors in peace and conflict.
Introduction: Peace for Some, and a Continuum of Violence for Others, 1. The Continuum of Violence: Approaches to Conflict, Sexual Violence, and Displacement, 2. A Feminist Ethnography of Violence in (Post)Colonial Settings, 3. Understanding Present Through Past: Colombia's Experience and Its Armed Conflict in Historical Perspective, 4. Women's Experiences of Violence and Insecurities in Colombia's Conflict, 5. After Violence: Territory, Identities, and Resistance, 6. The Coloniality of Violence: Women's Experiences of Extractive Insecurities in Colombia and Beyond