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The Production of Gendered Knowledge of War Women and Epistemic Power

200 Pages

by Routledge

200 Pages

by Routledge

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This edited volume critically investigates women’s knowledge about war and explores the epistemic agency of women in a range of contemporary settings across the globe. Women are deeply affected by war, participate in war and resist war. At the same time, knowledge production often ignores and marginalizes women’s experiences and gendered ways of knowing war. From Colombia to Israel and... Read more

Introduction: Theorizing Gendered Knowledge of War, Annika Björkdahl and Johanna Mannergren Chapter 1: Incorporating epistemic agency in UN Peacebuilding Fund Projects: Success Stories, Silences and Contestations in Liberia, Maria Martín de Almagro Chapter 2: Archival Research, Security Records and Violence against Women: Evidence from the First Intifada, Sarai B. Aharoni Chapter 3: Knowing Violence: Human Rights Documentation, Narrative Agency and Resistance in Myanmar, Jenny Hedström and Elisabeth Olivius Chapter 4: The Politics of Knowledge, Positionality and Power: The ‘Inclusivity’ of Indigenous Women in Peacemaking in Turtle Island (North America), Julia Palmiano Federer, Lena Dedyukina and Polly O. Walker Chapter 5: Women, Peace and Security: Women Ex-Combatants, Reintegration and Knowledge Production of War in Postwar Nepal, Luna K.C. Chapter 6: Malian Women’s Experiences with Violent Extremism: What is Known and How is it Known?, Jenny Lorentzen Chapter 7: Insurgent War Knowledge? Silences and Embodied Epistemic Agency in Insurgent Women’s Postwar Militancy in Colombia, Priscyll Anctil Avoine Chapter 8: From the USSR to Ukraine. An Autoethnographic Account of Researching Women and War, Anastasiia Chupis Chapter 9: Epistemic Agency, Embodied Knowledge and Power in the Digital Space: The Case of Nadia Murad, Annika Björkdahl and Johanna Mannergren