1st Edition
Gendering Peace in Violent Peripheries Marginality, Masculinity, and Feminist Agency
By Uddipana Goswami
Copyright 2023
176 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
176 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
176 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book forwards Assam (and Northeast India) as a specific location for studying operations of gendered power in multi-ethnic, conflict-habituated geopolitical peripheries globally.
In the shifting and relational margins of such peripheral societies, power and agency are constantly negotiated and in flux. Notions of masculinity are redefined in an interlaced environment of militarization,... Read more
Introduction: Engendering Conflict, Reframing Peace
1. Why Assam?: Making Peace in Peripheries of Power
2. Men in the Margins: Masculinity, Marginality, and Ethnic Conflicts
3. Many Violences: Conflict as Habit
4. Women Underground: Marginalized Women of a Troubled Periphery
Postscript: Peace Praxis and Reflexivity in Peripheries of Power
Biography
Uddipana Goswami is a writer, feminist peace researcher, and author of Conflict and Reconciliation: The Politics of Ethnicity in Assam (Routledge, 2014).
