1st Edition
Feminist Interventions in Critical Peace and Conflict Studies
Introduction: Critical peace and conflict studies: feminist interventions
Laura McLeod and Maria O’Reilly
1. Mundane peace and the politics of vulnerability: a nonsolid feminist research agenda
Tarja Väyrynen
2. From power-blind binaries to the intersectionality of peace: connecting feminism and critical peace and conflict studies
Stefanie Kappler and Nicolas Lemay-Hébert
3. The ‘third gender’ in Afghanistan: a feminist account of hybridity as a gendered experience
Hannah Partis-Jennings
4. Care as everyday peacebuilding
Tiina Vaittinen, Amanda Donahoe, Rahel Kunz, Silja Bára Ómarsdóttir and Sanam Roohi
5. From expert to experiential knowledge: exploring the inclusion of local experiences in understanding violence in conflict
Rachel Julian, Berit Bliesemann de Guevara and Robin Redhead
6. Veteran masculinities and audiovisual popular music in post-conflict Croatia: a feminist aesthetic approach to the contested everyday peace
Catherine Baker
Biography
Laura McLeod is lecturer in International Politics at the University of Manchester, UK. Her research focuses on gender, feminism and security concerns in post-conflict contexts. Her current project investigates gender indicators and databases used within UN peacebuilding.
Maria O’Reilly is senior lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Leeds Beckett University, UK. Her research focuses on questions of gender and agency in peacebuilding contexts, and she is currently exploring experiences of female ex-combatants in Bosnia & Herzegovina.
