Full Description
Political scientists have, on occasion, missed subtle but powerful forms of 'everyday resistance' and have not been able to show how different representations (pictures, statements, images, practices) have different impacts when negotiating power. Instead they have concentrated on open forms of resistance, organized rebellions and collective actions. Departing from James Scott's idea that oppression and resistance are in constant change, Resisting Gendered Norms provides us with a compelling account on the nexus between gender, resistance and gender-based violence in Cambodia. To illustrate how resistance is often carried out in the tension between, on the one hand, universal/globalised representations and, on the other, local 'truths' and identity constructions, in-depth interviews with civil society representatives, politicians as well as stakeholders within the legal/juridical system were conducted.
Contents
Foreword, Mona Lilja; Preface, Mona Lilja; Chapter 1 Introduction, Mona Lilja; Chapter 2 Theorising Power and Resistance, Mona Lilja; Chapter 3 Gender Roles and Practices in Cambodia, Mona Lilja; Part I Gender, Resistance and Gender-Based Violence, Mona Lilja; Chapter 4 Theorising Practice: Understanding Resistance Against Gender-Based Violence in Cambodia, Mona Lilja; Chapter 5 The Construction of a Trauma: Gender-Based Violence Issues in the Extraordinary Court of the Chambers of Cambodia, Mona Lilja; Chapter 6 Bearing Witness:Gender, Resistance and National Politics, Mona Lilja; Chapter 7 Gendering Political Legitimacy Through the Reproduction of Memories and Violent Discourses in Cambodia, Mona Lilja; Chapter 8 Globalisation, Women's Political Part icipation and the Politics of Legitimacy and Reconstruction in Cambodia, Mona Lilja; Chapter 9 Theorising Resistance: Mapping, Concretism and Universalism, Mona Lilja; Chapter 10 The Gaps of the 'Linguistic Turn': Resistance in the Nexus of Representations, the 'Surplus' and the Material, Mona Lilja; Chapter 11 Concluding Reflections, Mona Lilja;
