Routledge Handbook of Masculinities, Conflict, and Peacebuilding

PART 1: Theoretical framings  1. Masculinities in conflict and peacebuilding: an introduction, Henri Myrttinen, Chloé Lewis, Heleen Touquet, Philipp Schulz, Farooq Yousaf and Elizabeth Laruni  2. Theoretical frameworks on masculinities and peacebuilding: current limitations and potential for a gender-transformative peace, Amy Dwyer-Neigenfind  3. Masculinities in conflict and peacebuilding: a critical mapping of the field, Henri Myrttinen, Chloé Lewis, Philipp Schulz, Heleen Touquet, Farooq Yousaf, Elizabeth Laruni, Anisa Abeytia, Esther Brito, John Sunday Ojo and Obasesam Okoi  4. Feminist research on men and masculinity(ies): dilemmas and discomfort, Keshab Giri  PART 2: Civilian masculinities and the spectrum of violent contexts  5. Invisible men: the injured lives of Afghan interpreters, Sara de Jong and Sayed Jalal Shajjan  6. Masculine vulnerability, gangs, and perpetual violence, Adam Baird  7. Masculinities and/under protracted occupation, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin and Seamus Campbell  8. 'Doing' padre de Pamilya: displacement and masculinities in the Southern Philippines, Jennefer Lyn L. Bagaporo  9. Passing as a 'hard man': regulating everyday queer (in)visibilities in the Syrian Conflict, Zeynep Pınar Erdem, Henri Myrttinen and Charbel Maydaa  10. Masculinities in the conflict-affected rural Pashtun society of Pakistan, Farooq Yousaf and Syed Shah  PART 3: Masculinities, agency, vulnerability, and care  11. Masculinities and agency: gendering vulnerability and victimhood, Jessica Auchter  12. Masculinity, trauma, and armed conflict: how gender norms shape and perpetuate trauma among men, Heidi Riley and Gina Vale  13. Male survivors of conflict-related sexual violence, masculinities and peacebuilding, Heleen Touquet and Philipp Schulz  14. War disability: complications and possibilities for peacebuilding processes, Nurseli Yeşim Sünbüloğlu  15. Enacting a politics of care: refugee men’s experiences and responses to displacement in Greece, Oska Paul  16. "When I see my son, all I feel is love": caring practices of fathers seeking asylum in Belgium, Leni Linthout, Ines Keygnaert and Ilse Derluyn  PART 4: Masculinities in peacebuilding  17. Mainstreaming masculinities in the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Agenda, Michael E. Brown and Chantal de Jonge Oudraat  18. Analysing men and masculinities in gender-transformative humanitarian action policy, Tevvi Bullock  19. Gentleman-bureaucrat masculinities and UK national security policymaking, Hannah Wright  20. Confronting masculinities and breaking binaries in disarmament diplomacy, Ray Acheson  21. Between civilian and military masculinities and exceptionalism in humanitarian memoir, Róisín Read  22. Masculinities in the Colombian Truth Commission’s final report: challenges and opportunities for gender-transformative justice, Marisol Ortiz-Acosta and Germán Otálora-Gallego  23. Doing gender, doing peace: eurocentrism, masculinities, and the WPS Agenda’s ‘add men and stir’ problem, Kara Ann Hooser  PART 5: Civilian masculine gender norms in the aftermath of conflict  24. Masculinities in post-conflict Aceh: gender, power, and peace processes, Kristine Baekgaard, Olivia Shoemaker and Robert U. Nagel  25. Patriarchal backlash in Uganda? Contested masculinities in conflict and peacebuilding, Jerker Edström, Amon Ashaba Mwiine and David N. Tshimba  26. "Today I can truly have a heart for people“: narratives of identity transformation amongst former gang members in South Africa, Jane Kelly  27. Moving away from violence: emerging counter-hegemonic masculinities in Timor-Leste, Felix Maia, Nivea Saldanha and Julia Scharinger  28. Reshaping gender roles and pollution of hpon after the 2021 military coup in Myanmar, Hannah Russell and Liv Gaborit  29. Queering masculinities in protests: imagining “other ways to be” with Danish Siddiqui, Q Manivannan  PART 6: Transforming masculinities in conflict-affected settings  30. 'Faithing' masculinities in conflict: engaging faith leaders and communities to prevent sexual and gender-based violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Chloé Lewis, Alfred Banga Lumpali, Chloé-Yasmine Aganze Bazibuhe, Rebecca Bora Shirubute, Bénédiction Kimathe and Jean Mukengere Ntole 31. Transforming masculinities through Male Advocacy in post-conflict Bougainville, Mercy Masta and Sister Lorraine Garasu  32. Resisting the dichotomies of war heroes and victims: masculinities and political prisoners in El Salvador, Ursula Mosqueira  33. Men beyond war: a case study of working with traumatized men in Eastern DR Congo, Henny Slegh, Gary Barker, Aloys Mahwa and Benoit Ruratotoye  34. Seeing the forest for the trees: the case for a more structural approach to countering militarised masculinities and mobilising men for feminist peace, Dean Peacock, Laura Pascoe, Patrick Welsh and Angelica Pino

Biography

Henri Myrttinen is a visiting research fellow at the University of Bremen, Germany, and an independent consultant on gender, peace, and security.

Chloé Lewis is a senior research fellow with Equimundo: Centre for Masculinities and Social Justice and is a research fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford.

Heleen Touquet is a visiting professor at the department of political sciences at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.

Philipp Schulz is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Intercultural and International Studies (InIIS) at the University of Bremen.

Farooq Yousaf is an independent researcher based in Australia.

Elizabeth Laruni is the Conflict Sensitivity and Gender Lead of the London-based peacebuilding organisation International Alert.

"Given the state of the contemporary world which includes high levels of violence, declining peace negotiations and formal peace agreements, populist masculinist leadership, anti-feminist backlash and frequent displays of toxic masculinity, new empirical research and theoretical insights on masculinities in peace and conflict studies have been long overdue. The editors are some of the finest scholars of masculinity studies and they have curated this urgently needed handbook for posterity, bringing together contributors exploring a diverse range of geographies, locations, positionalities, voices and methodologies to understand masculinities as a dynamic and intersectional gender construct. This extraordinary handbook fills a very important gap and will be of great relevance not just to scholars and educators in gender, conflict, peace and development research but also to practitioners and activists."

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

 

“To produce a whole handbook specifically on masculinities, conflict and peacebuilding might seem, to some people, a very particular, focused and perhaps narrow venture. But here, now, is this new Handbook, with 34 chapters, from all over the world, showing in multiple ways the importance and urgency of theoretical, political, policy and personal work on men and masculinities in conflict and peacebuilding. With both broad overviews and located studies, this Handbook is a huge and indispensable resource for scholars, students, policy-makers, politicians, activists, peacebuilders and peacekeepers, and even and of course for the military, alike.”

Jeff Hearn, Senior Professor, Human Geography, Örebro University, Sweden; Professor of Sociology, University of Huddersfield, UK; Professor Emeritus, Hanken School of Economics, Finland

"We have been grappling with "gender" since the 60's, questioning how we assume particular roles and why. This book is an exploration of the relation of masculine gender to structures of power and their institutions: physical, religious, political and military and the mutuality of creation. It brings out the complexities of expectations and whilst it doesn't answer all the questions, it takes us much closer to understanding how to make the changes to our binary narratives. A fascinating read."

Madeleine Reese, Former Secretary-General, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)