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Emerging Feminist Peace from Below and Disaster Recovery: A Quilted Ethnography book cover

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Emerging Feminist Peace from Below and Disaster Recovery A Quilted Ethnography

By Marjaana Jauhola, Shyam Gadhavi Copyright 2025
252 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book offers a critical contribution to feminist peace and disaster research by challenging the successful disaster recovery narrative of the Kachchh 2001 earthquake in Gujarat, India. Engaging in a feminist intersectional analysis of complex cascades of violence, the book uses a theoretical and methodological approach to studying cascades of violence of populist post-disaster recovery,... Read more

Part I: Studying the Aftermath of Disaster Recovery  1. Introduction: Emerging Feminist Peace from Below Amid Disaster Recovery and Complex Cascades of Violence  2. Quilted Ethnography of Emerging Feminist Peace from Below  3. Modi’s Political Transformation from Sangh Volunteer to Viśvaguru and Viśvāmitra, Teacher and Friend of All  Part II: Āvās Landscapes Challenging the Hegemonic Recovery Narrative  4. Populist Recovery Narrative Revisited: "Temporary Neighbourhood of Bhuj, or Epicentre of Problems?"  5.  A "Wasteland" to Be Developed: Temporary Shelter Neighbourhood Reconnected to Its History  6. Locating Gendered Spirituality as Care, Healing, and Contestation of Norms  Part III: Emergence of Feminist Peace through Life Histories  7. Beyond Anthropocentric Care: Minority Masculinities, Rewal Horse Racing, and Love for Maṇkī  8.  "When I Think of Those Days, I Feel Like the Earth Will Break Apart and I Will Merge into It": Reconciling Gendered Intersections of Violence  Part IV: Permanently Temporary  9. Complex Cascades of Violence and Uncertainty as a Result of Earthquake Recovery  10. Conclusions: From Complex Cascades of Violence and Uncertainty to Emerging Feminist Peace from Below in Disaster Recovery

 

 

Biography

Marjaana Jauhola is a senior research fellow at Tampere Peace Research Institute, Tampere University, Finland, and associate professor in Global Development Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland.

Shyam Gadhavi is a founder and president of the Prakrit Foundation for Development Trust, India, an NGO.

'This book is the product of outstanding research and scholarship and its ethnographic quilting is an innovative method in the co-creation of knowledge. Taking the everyday as a site of epistemic and methodological enquiry that weaves the local and the global together, the book is a valuable exposition of post-disaster recovery from a feminist peace studies perspective. Essential read on the violence of development, disaster recovery and populist politics especially in India.'

Swati Parashar, Professor in Peace and Development, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg

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