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Tracing Gender Practices After Armed Conflicts

At Peace with Masculinities?

Palgrave Macmillan

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  • Offers a comprehensive model of violence-centered masculinities and their change
  • Based on original interview data including members of the Armed Forces of Liberia, and the Liberia National Police
  • Provides a practice-theoretical understanding of gender

Part of the book series: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies (RCS)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
  2. The Antagonism Between Men and Women

    • Hendrik Quest
    Pages 71-121
  3. The Antagonism Between Fighters and Civilians

    • Hendrik Quest
    Pages 157-191
  4. At Peace with Masculinities?

    • Hendrik Quest
    Pages 193-210
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 211-235

About this book

This book offers a unique perspective on changing gender practices in post-conflict societies, looking at when and how masculinities change after armed conflicts. Building on original research data from Liberia, chapters look at the pathways of change in societal discourses, security sector institutions, and at the level of formatter combatants. Scrutinising the potential of peacebuilding for making conflict-related masculinities change after armed conflicts, the book develops a theoretical model that helps to understand both how violence-centred masculinities change after armed conflicts, and why profound changes of violent gender practices occur only rarely. What this book hopes to show is that masculinities can and do change after armed conflicts. Illuminating the intricate interrelationship between gendered practices within societal discourses, security sector institutions, and at the individual level in post-conflict societies, this book constitutes an invitation to rethinking ourunderstanding of peacebuilding practices and their interconnectedness with gender, violence, and peace.

Authors and Affiliations

  • International Relations/Peace and Conflict Research, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

    Hendrik Quest

About the author

Hendrik Quest is Research Associate and Lecturer at the Institute of Political Science, University of Tübingen, Germany.

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eBook USD 119.00
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  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 159.99
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  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 159.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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