Overview
- Conceptualises and systematically explores the notion of ‘gendered agency’ in peacebuilding contexts Explores the gender politics of post-war justice from the perspective of both policymakers and beneficiariesProduces cutting-edge research which will challenge dominant discourses on peace and justice
Part of the book series: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies (RCS)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book examines how gendered agency emerges in peacebuilding contexts. It develops a feminist critique of the international peacebuilding interventions, through a study of transitional justice policies and practices implemented in Bosnia & Herzegovina, and local activists’ responses to official discourses surrounding them. Extending Nancy Fraser’s tripartite model of justice to peacebuilding contexts, the book also advances notions of recognition, redistribution and representation as crucial components of gender-just peace. It argues that recognising women as victims and survivors of conflict, achieving a gender-equitable distribution of material and symbolic resources, and enabling women to participate as agents of transitional justice processes, are all essential for transforming the structural inequalities that enable gender violence and discrimination to materialise before, during, and after conflict. This study establishes a new avenue of analysis for understanding responsesand resistances to international peacebuilding, by offering a sustained engagement with feminist social and political theory.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Maria O’Reilly is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London, UK. Her research explores the gender politics of post-conflict peacebuilding interventions, and examines the extent to which these practices provide gender justice and security in the aftermath of violent conflict.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Gendered Agency in War and Peace
Book Subtitle: Gender Justice and Women's Activism in Post-Conflict Bosnia-Herzegovina
Authors: Maria O’Reilly
Series Title: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-352-00145-7
Publisher: Palgrave London
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-352-00144-0Published: 16 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95804-7Published: 28 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-352-00145-7Published: 03 November 2017
Series ISSN: 1759-3735
Series E-ISSN: 2752-857X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 326
Number of Illustrations: 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Politics and Gender, Development and Gender, Conflict Studies