Full Description
This volume advances a vision of what Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) might look like if critical feminist theories moved to the centre of our analyses. Critical feminist literatures hold promise for enriching our understanding of everyday dynamics of conflict and potential pathways for building peace with justice. The book charts a course from the critique of the patriarchal, colonial, and liberal power structures that exacerbate violence, to presenting a vision of feminist alternatives to the status quo, and finally, to a discussion of the application of feminist insights for research, pedagogy, and praxis. Empirical and theoretical contributions explore topics including religious women's activism, colonial power dynamics within elementary schools, critical views on women's empowerment, grassroots pro-migrant movements, embodied and affective practices of peace, Indigenous and migrant views on citizenship and solidarity, critical feminist research ethics, and intersectional, queer and posthumanist peace pedagogies.
Contents
List of Contributors
Foreword by Swati Parashar (University of Gothenburg)
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Generative Feminist 'Misfitting' in Peace and Conflict Studies
Lisa McLean (King's University College), Julie Marie Hyde (Dalhousie University)
Part I: Moving Towards a Feminist Critique
1. Who Speaks for Religion? Gender, Agency and a Critical Feminist Approach to Religion in PACS
Sheherazade Jafari (Georgetown University)
2. Inter-beings: Methodological and Ethical Considerations Within Feminist Research with Young People
Julie Marie Hyde
3. Contradictions of Women's Empowerment Discourse in Patriarchal Monarchies: The Case of Oman
Hania Bekdash-Muellers (Independent Researcher)
Part II: Envisioning Pathways to Peace with Justice
4. Building Peace by Disturbing the Peace: Vulnerability as a Critical Methodology and Vision for Just Futures
Lisa McLean
5. Black Women's Practices in the Struggle for Peace and Justice in Ecuador
Beatriz Juárez Rodríguez (Carleton University)
Part III: Enacting Critical Feminist Praxis
6. Research Anonymity as Protection and Non-Anonymity as Acknowledgement: A Deliberation on Epistemic Violence and Epistemic Justice
Nompumelelo Motlafi Francis (University of Pretoria)
7. The Dispossessed: Indigenous and Migrant Views against the Dominant Narratives on Citizenship in Northeast India
Bidisha Mahanta (Zubaan), Karie Cross Riddle (Pepperdine University)
8. Critical Feminist and Queer Informed Pedagogies for Peace and Conflict Studies
Jodi Dueck-Read (Canadian Mennonite University)
9. The Difference that Difference Makes: Intersectional Praxis, Pedagogy and Program Design in Peace and Justice Studies
Garrett FitzGerald (Pace University), Emily Welty (Pace University)
10. Curriculum Against Empire: Feminist Posthumanist Peace Education in the Anthropocene
Jerica Arents (DePaul University)
Conclusion: Carrying the Conversation Forward
Sheherazade Jafari, Jodi Dueck-Read
Index
